This will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan risking everything that still matters to him. And he’s got an interesting anarchist girl who’s helping, strange as THAT seems. It’s 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderīestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips ( Reckless, Pulp, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Criminal, and Kill or Be Killed) bring us a new, third original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.Even when I know it's only going to leave me alone with nothing but memories.' Brilliant.

And I'm never afraid to follow it, no matter where it goes. Sometimes it feels like the path is finding me. Or knowing which way to go when it splits in two. Reckless thoughts after completing the case: 'when you do what I do, a lot of the job is just about staying on the path as it starts to get twisted. He knows exactly how to illustrate the cinematic scenes that Brubaker details, and his mastery of expressions and body language is so important to conveying the feeling and mood of the story as it plays out. He's worked together with Brubaker on so many creative crime fiction comics that he's like a shadow or an overcoat.

It's easy to overlook the contributions of artist Sean Phillips - so I won't. I relate to much of his attitude (except his take on dispensing justice) and appreciate the quirkiness of the character (living in an abandoned movie house and watching reels of '60's sitcoms and b-movies). Like Connelly's Bosch, Brubaker's Ethan Reckless is a character that fascinates me. This one really sticks the landing.īrubaker focuses on some obsessive issues of the 1970's and 1980's, snuff films and satanic cults, and weaves them into his story of a determined Reckless trying to find the whereabouts or status (living or dead) of his new girlfriend's older foster sister, who went to Hollywood for stardom and disappeared eight years prior. Like a Michael Connelly police procedural Bosch novel, you just keep reading because you know the payoff will be worth it. FRIEND OF THE DEVIL gets bogged down a bit with detective procedural issues, but it's fascinating to learn how the mind of Ethan Reckless (a problem-solver and a fixer, but not a bonafide private investigator) pulls at the thinnest of threads and works his way eventually to the whole ball of yarn.

Friend of the devil a reckless book