"Manga meets film noir" in this collection of all-new stories not seen in the hit anime series. In this latest volume, master criminal Beck breaks out of jail, enlisting his old cronies in a scheme to ruin The Big O's reputation. A starving artist falls in love with Roger's housemaid Dorothy, using the android as the model for his greatest painting ever. A steel-eating monster begins to consume the city block by block. Only Roger Smith can help the dark city he calls home avoid destruction.