I had been toying with the idea for a while, thinking of how to approach it, who the character would be, why anyone would care, etc… but it was always back-burnered, because I really wanted to do it as a series of books, not comics then collected into books.īut then the pandemic hit, and during the first lockdown I started reading a bunch of my favorite old pulp series characters, and it was like this great escape from real life. What made RECKLESS the next thing you wanted to tackle after your recent work with Sean, like PULP, BAD WEEKEND, CRUEL SUMMER, and KILL OR BE KILLED?ĮD BRUBAKER: RECKLESS is a modern (or maybe post-modern?) take on the classic paperback series characters from the 60s and 70s that I grew up seeing my dad read, with all the lurid covers that promised so much. ĪLEX SEGURA: Ed, can you talk a bit about RECKLESS? You and Sean have tackled the dark side of humanity in various ways, but I know you also love characters like Lew Archer-heroes that have to stick their hands in the muck. I sat down with Brubaker to talk about the new series, why the team decided to go straight to the collected, graphic novel format, and what readers can expect to see in the first volume of Reckless, out Dec.

Brubaker and Phillips, along with colorist Jacob Phillips, are known for their dark, noir takes on the world-whether it’s the period piece The Fade-Out, the vigilante justice of Kill or Be Killed, or the gritty anthology series Criminal, the team have made a name for themselves exploring the dark corners of the criminal underworld to great acclaim, sales, and prestige.

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