There was an old black and white comic book in the early 90s that was based on the idea of genderswapped Holmes & Watson: Baker Street by Guy Davis and Gary Reed. But the characters had different names - last names too, I mean - and backgrounds from the original: the Holmes, Sharon Ford, was ex-cop turned private detective for punk outcasts in a steampunk 1980s Britain, while the Watson, Susan Prendergast, was an American exchange student of medicine. Their basic personalities were the same, though, and so was most of their dynamics except for an important third character, a woman who was already living with Sharon when Susan moved in.
So it wasn't quite the kind of thing you're thinking of (they were both white), but I'm mentioning it anyway since it was a pretty fresh and memorable comic, though it only ran for a short time - nine or ten issues, I think. The second arc was particularly interesting, delving into some pretty dark stuff with lots of character development.
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Date: 2012-03-01 07:04 pm (UTC)So it wasn't quite the kind of thing you're thinking of (they were both white), but I'm mentioning it anyway since it was a pretty fresh and memorable comic, though it only ran for a short time - nine or ten issues, I think. The second arc was particularly interesting, delving into some pretty dark stuff with lots of character development.