Deathwish #1 (Dec. 1994):
“This Ain’t No Cryin’ Game”
by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti

Deathwish #1

Title: “This Ain’t No Cryin’ Game”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1994

Publisher:

Written by: Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani
Art by: J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti

4 characters in this story:

Character
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and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)

Religious
Affiliation

Team(s)
[Notes]

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Deathwish (Wilton Johnson)
(lead character)

obsessed with sex-related
crimes

[adventurer; vigilante]

Marisa Rahm
(lead character)

LGBT

[transexual]

Boots (James Gordon Staley)

[albino]

Dini Torres

LGBT

Hispanic
[Marisa Rahm's transsexual lover; House of Luna's top diva]

Summary from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=23&:

Introduction of Marisa Rahm, a transexual police officer, and her hunt for Boots, a psychotic killer of she-males. Marisa meets with Deathwish, a vigilante bent toward weird sex crimes. After the meeting, Deathwish decides to break out of prison and join the hunt for Boots.

Deathwish #1 (Dec. 1994): “This Ain’t No Cryin’ Game” by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti

Deathwish #1 (Dec. 1994):
“This Ain’t No Cryin’ Game”
by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti