Friend of the Devil

Pages: 104
Published: 2021
Language: English

It's 1985, and Ethan Reckless's life is finally on an even keel — until a missing woman turns up in the background of a decades-old B-movie, pulling him into Los Angeles's secret occult underbelly. Chasing her trail means confronting the debauched excess of the 1970s film scene and the people who never quite left it behind.

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips continue the Reckless series with another self-contained mystery steeped in LA sleaze and nostalgia, pairing hardboiled investigation with genuine dread.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Gritty Atmospheric Dark

Graphic Novels Crime Horror

Ed Brubaker

Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966, in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and screenwriter working primarily in crime fiction. He gained wide recognition at DC Comics for Batman, Catwoman and Gotham Central (co-created with Greg Rucka), then moved to Marvel, where he relaunched Captain America and introduced the Winter Soldier storyline. He is best known for his long-running creator-owned collaboration with artist Sean Phillips, including Criminal, Incognito, Fatal...