Rendered in grayscale, the comic is a fusion of hardboiled noir fiction and a samurai adventure tale.

[1] Sam Noir, a ronin detective, is paid to track a young woman named Jasmine, and after watching her for a while begins to fall in love with her.

After Jasmine's murder by ninjas, Sam starts to look for "Master Fuyu", the man who ordered her assassination.

[2] Broken Frontier stated that "Anderson knows his hard-boiled style ... [making] the reading itself compelling—not to mention witty at times," while the art's "lyrical framing, evocative panel constructions, light and shadow effects [are] so well executed they’re like characters in the story".

[3] Conversely, The X-Axis found the series "frustrating", stating that "it feels like there are two completely different, and better, comics struggling to get out - one which is much more funny, and one which takes [itself] entirely seriously".