Basil and Moebius

Two men walk into an impossible job. One wears a bespoke suit and a smile built for the con; the other is a slab of muscle who lets his knuckles do the negotiating. Basil and Moebius are rogues for hire — thieves, treasure-hunters, and deeply reluctant heroes who take the contracts no sane crew would touch, chasing cursed relics, lost fortunes, and occult secrets across a world where the supernatural is very much for sale. Created by Ryan Schifrin, the mismatched pair first ran their capers through a globe-trotting comics series before spilling into prose. Beyond the illustrated adventures, a bench of genre veterans — Timothy Zahn, Richard Lee Byers, Chris A. Jackson, Erik Scott de Bie — take turns sending the duo after fresh scores in short fiction, each case a self-contained heist welded onto the same volatile partnership. Two ongoing shelves, then: the graphic novels where it all begins, and the anthology that keeps the jobs coming. The pleasure is the odd-couple friction — dry banter, cheerful double-crosses, and pulp momentum that hurls the next wonder at you before you can ask how the last one worked. This is adventure that grins while it steals. Newcomers should begin with Schifrin's original graphic novels, where the partnership is forged and the rules of this larcenous world get set, then move to the prose anthology for standalone jobs that reward that grounding without demanding it.