![]() ![]() Pulp was their first offering in this new format, followed at the end of the year by the debut of Reckless. During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020, this creative team shifted from producing monthly ‘floppies’ to more sustainable, self-contained graphic albums, as exemplified by the European comics industry. Brubaker and Phillips excel at chronicling the trials and tribulations of their hard luck, morally-compromised protagonists, while making the reader empathize with them. ![]() ![]() The duo’s longest running collaboration, Criminal, follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Lawless clan. Early works such as Sleeper and Incognito explored the supervillain underworld through the standpoint of active participants therein, while The Fadeout focused on the James Ellroy-tinged milieu of Golden Age Hollywood. The creative duo of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have worked together for several decades, amsssing a robust body of work:, most of it with an emphasis on crime stories. ![]()
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