The Fuse

Antony Johnston and Justin Greenwood launched The Fuse at Image Comics in 2014. The orbiting station is home to hundreds of thousands of people, and its police have to solve crimes inside a city with its own history and factions.

Detectives Dietrich and Ristovych follow a case through that built environment. The futuristic setting changes the logistics of investigation without replacing the human motives behind crime.

The series makes an orbital station feel like a working city rather than a pristine spacecraft. Its political entanglements and everyday disorder give the noir plot a plausible home.

The police-procedural structure invites readers to learn the station by following evidence through its neighborhoods and institutions.

The Fuse's location and infrastructure create distinctive risks. A city that doubles as a power station cannot treat safety, maintenance, and policing as separate matters.

The premise asks how an artificial habitat inherits the inequalities and crimes of cities on Earth.

Greenwood's lived-in station design favors grime, crowds, and layered machinery. The setting's complexity makes a clue or escape route feel geographically meaningful.

Characterful faces keep the procedural grounded amid orbital scale.