Nevada
Steve Gerber, Phil Winstade, Steve Leialoha & Dick Giordano
Vegas publisher Pop! Goes The Icon had been making comic books related to this fair town for a number of years like Tales From Fremont St. and Tales From Lost Vegas. As far as I know, this isn't the first time comic books had visited Vegas. In 1998, DC imprint Vertigo published an off-beat existential sci-fi mini-series called 'Nevada'.
The main plot concerns a porthole ('The Rift') from the depth of a distant universe opening up to our world through the spot light on top of Luxur-styled resort called The Nile and The Rift Warrior who protects our reality from these Rift invaders. At the start of the story, the warrior position is about to change hands from a warn-out homeless bum, who must remain drunk in order to fight the rift visitors, to a showgirl named Nevada and her pet ostrich.
......as simple I can describe the title as it's quite layered and complex in plot and character development, which is typical of the creator and writer of this series, Steve Gerber, who is better known as the co-creator of Howard The Duck for Marvel Comics. A theme that runs throughout Gerber's work is his imaginative examination of the universe and human existence and Nevada is no exception, like a short but elaborate list of rift characters that reads straight out of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers; series, only more twisted and without the Britishness.
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The compilation book also contains a X-mas short story call 'Piss On Earth' where an angry and drunk Nevada passes out and dreams of a VERY Vegas Christmas with the birth of Jesus with her as the Virgin Mary and Joseph played by Elvis and ZZ Top and Little Richard as the four wise men.
This is NOT your standard 'superhero' comic, so if you demand more from a comic, much less anything written based in Vegas (Gerber lived there during the time of this publication), be prepared for a wild and woolly ride.