![]() This has led him to try and escape back into better times in his life by watching old movies and TV shows in his theater. His dad has recently passed away and there was still some bad blood between them going back to when Ethan fell out with the FBI. “Friend of the Devil” starts off in 1985, four years after the events in “Reckless.” Ethan is still living out of his movie theater and his friend Annie is still helping manage the calls for help he gets, along with his life in general. Which is exactly what they’ve done with this volume. However, it did mark the first entry in a planned series of graphic novels from the creators, so there was always the chance that Brubaker and Phillips could improve on things from there. “Reckless” was by no means bad, it just didn’t have quite the same level of depth as those other two works. ![]() They had already released the excellent graphic novella “Pulp” and followed it up with the even better “Criminal” collection “Cruel Summer,” which made my Top 10 list for 2020. ![]() “Reckless” had the misfortune of being the “least good” book in what was a banner year for Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. ![]()
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