The story begins at the Santa Monica Library in 1985, as Ethan is searching old newspapers for leads on a man who faked his own death when he meets Linh Tran, a fiery librarian. Now, the second installment of the Reckless series Friend of the Devil, has been released. That final release, Reckless is just the first in a series of original graphic novels starring the titular Ethan Reckless, a pseudo private eye pulp hero in the vein of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher or The Equalizer.
The dynamic duo released Pulp, Cruel Summer and Reckless all in 2020. Despite the series’ dour lead, the sharp cultural references, bone-deep knowledge of the Southland, and pulsing through line of righteous heroism will make readers eager for Ethan’s next reluctant adventure.Reckless: Friend of the Devil Is a Pulpy Delight from Brubaker and Phillips Writer Ed Brubaker Artist Sean Phillips Letterer Sean Phillips Cover Artist Sean Phillips Publisher Image Comics Price 24.99 Release Date Colorist Jacob PhillipsĮd Brubaker and Sean Phillips might be the most prolific creative team working in comics today. Ethan pursues his leads doggedly but with a baked-in cynicism, knowing that after solving the case he and Linh would just “wait for the truth to destroy us.” The art is varied, richly colored, and grittily textured as old film stock. After spotting Maggie in the background of a crummy exploitation flick, Ethan begins pulling at the tangled threads of a seedy operation and unravels a tale of the city’s fall from hippie optimism, with movie producers taking advantage of fresh-off-the-bus ingenues, an Aleister Crowley meets Charles Manson cult, and Nazi skinheads (“for some reason, there always had to be skinheads”). Falling hard for Linh Tran, a tough-as-nails library clerk, he agrees to help find her sister Maggie, who vanished into the Hollywood fleshpots years before. It’s 1985 and ex-FBI agent and current paladin for hire Ethan Reckless is grinding through private-eye cases, mourning his father, and losing himself by watching old sitcoms at his shuttered movie theater office.
Ghosts of the 1960s and ’70s haunt this bruising second entry in Brubaker and Phillips’s bloody-knuckled L.A.
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