Basin City, almost universally referred to by the nickname Sin City, is a fictional town in the American west. The Basin City Police are more or less along the lines of paramilitary or SWAT, as they have to deal with incredibly high crime rates among criminals and civilians alike, which is why they have access to what most would consider "heavy weaponry" and full body armor. They are frequently used as a place to dump things that people don't want found; high- schoolers also tend to sneak in there a lot. This is where Delia tells Phil to drive in Wrong Turn and where Dwight takes the corpses of Jackie Boy and his friends in The Big Fat Kill. While they appear in only one story, it is hinted that the Mafia influence in Basin City's underworld is a lot larger than just their family. The short stories Rats, The Customer is Always Right and Daddy's Little Girl do not contain any of the series' regular characters, are not connected to the other stories, or do not give an idea of when the stories occur. Silent Night takes place sometime before The Hard Goodbye during the winter. Although there have been few new major films in the classic film noir genre since the early 1960s, it has nonetheless had significant impact on other genres. Two covers were available for the first issue, one featuring Concrete and the other featuring Xerxes. The new DHP has seen the revival of a number of older Dark Horse properties.
