Pearl Volume 1

<b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling, Peabody, and multi-Eisner award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis (<i>Superman</i>) and superstar <i>Jessica Jones</i> co-creator Michael Gaydos begin a masterful saga involving art, crime, loyalty, and passion.</b><br><br>Pearl Tanaka’s an outsider among outsiders. A Japanese American with albinism, she was born into a world ruled by the American yakuza. Now she uses her unequaled skills as a tattoo artist to make a living in San Francisco, and all that she owes to the yakuza is the occasional kickback from her shop.<br><br>That all changes the day that she meets Rick Araki...and saves his life. Rick is another tattoo artist, who's run afoul of a different yakuza clan. By interfering with their hit on him, Pearl risks drawing her patron into a deadly gang war.<br><br>Worse, Pearl has revealed to her yakuza bosses one of her deepest secrets: she has a talent for killing. Now, to pay off her debt, she must become an assassin for her yakuza clan.<br><br>But Pearl Tanaka's secrets run more than just skin deep...<br><br><br>Collects <i>Pearl</i> #1–#6.<br>