Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is "management or disposition of light and shade in a picture; a painting in black and white; the effect of light and shade or variety and contrast." It comes from the Italian chiaro clear or bright, and oscuro dark.1 Chiaroscuro is a 2000 AD strip by Simon Spurrier and Cam Smith about a bloke who ends up with a haunted reel of film or something, which ran from progs 1507 to 1517 (pictured) in 2006. Anthony Elvy is the son of a famous film director and reckons that the industry has become totally fake and insincere, but his search for authenticity gets him more than he bargained for when he's given a film reel of some Cubans being executed by US soldiers. "Human kind / Cannot bear very much reality."

1Definition taken from Chambers Dictionary (12th edition).