A cult gem from the late-’90s alt-comix underground, Jack’s Luck Runs Out is Jason Little’s slick, neon-noir playing-card fever dream—part crime caper, part pop-art experiment, all killer style. The whole story is built around meticulously designed card-suit characters living in a grimy, Vegas-by-way-of–Fort Thunder world where loyalty is cheap and luck burns fast. Sharp linework, bold graphic layouts, and that pristine late-’90s indie polish make it a standout from the Beekeeper Cartoon Amusements era.
It’s clever, punchy, visually obsessive, and impossible to mistake for anything else—an underground favourite that feels equal parts EC crime comic and experimental design project. A must for collectors who crave oddball one-shots, micro-press weirdness, and anything that sits just left of the mainstream’s shadow.
