Philips’ work is a perfect marriage to Brubaker’s broody script. With bent cops, LA orgies and a PI that’s “too old for this shit!” it’s a delight to read. Reckless is older, slower and needs help from his assistant Anna to spot clues and save himself from his own errors.īrubaker’s Reckless is a deeply flawed, but somehow perfect character, too withdrawn to engage with others but too passionate to drop things when the going gets tough. The book opens with the theatre in flames and Reckless knocked out by a masked assailant.Īfter a few pages of darkness (great touch for some on knocked out) we’re going back through the cases that led here from the Case of the Dirty Diapers to the main case. It’s such a refreshing but familiar book, even though I have never picked up the Reckless series of books before today.Įthan Reckless is a grumpy old PI, living in an abandoned movie theatre near Venice Beach. How hard could that be, right? But what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and Ethan will risk everything that still matters to him.Īnother smash hit from the award-winning creators of RECKLESS, PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED-and a must-have for all BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS fans Writer: Ed BrubakerĪ good book should feel like a comfortable chair, making you relaxed and refreshed after a stressful day and Destroy All Monsters does that and more.

It’s 1988, and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. “ Oh man, this book pushed every crime fiction button for me…Bliss.” - PATTON OSWALT The next book in the red-hot RECKLESS series is here!īestselling crime noir masters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS bring us a new original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.

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