So it's a retelling of OEDIPUS REX with gangsters starring a guy named Eddie?

We may not be Vertigo, but heck, we have one of those! NUMBERS: A Tale of Shades and Angels by John Ira Thomas and Jeremy Smith is the tale of Eddie Foote, a gangster playing a dead pool that turns on him. He's got a bonebreaking psychopath on one side, a frail mother who holds a strange power over him on another, and a bunch of people laying down money that he'll be dead in a couple days to fill in any escape routes. It came out in 2003 but is still in print and you can get it lots of places online.