![]() Series fans will ride along in anticipation. It all feels less like a self-contained story than a prelude for a dark implosion heading Ethan's way. Private-eye tropes like decadent upper-crust parties and corrupt cops abound, while sudden action scenes cut through Ethan's hazy, guilt-ridden flashback narration, such as when he smashed a drug pusher's face with a skateboard. ![]() Worried he is losing Anna his trusty punk assistant and only friend, finally given her due in a touching origin story Ethan loses himself in weed, old movies, and memories: "after a while, even remembering seemed pointless." Moody washed-out art recalls the cinematic oddities that Ethan and Anna watch in their old movie house headquarters. ![]() But the mystery plot ends up feeling like background as Ethan traps himself in pained nostalgia. ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from thema good guy. Hired by a Black city councilmember to look into a scuzzy and rich white developer, Ethan is pleased to be sticking it to the Man. Reckless Reckless Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. But he does pick up a case, and it's a doozie. It's 1988, three years following Friend of the Devil, and Ethan is barely pretending to be a private investigator. Still up for a fight, Brubaker and Phillips's Ethan Reckless is feeling his age in the slow-burning third entry of their Los Angeles noir series. ![]()
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