Books by Ed Brubaker
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review 1: Brubaker knocks another one out of the park, with Steve Epting at his side. Velvet is an exciting, 70s spy story, full of the stuff that makes every good Bond flick. The art is pitch perfect in tone, masking the story in a strong noir veil, with excellent action sequences, and pe...
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review 1: Tracy Lawless, the extremely tarnished knight, is back! This is a personal favorite of mine since it was the first Criminal series I picked up. Of course, I was soon hooked and started collecting the rest of the back issues. The story shows that men with honor, not matter how muc...
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review 1: A good spy thriller graphic-novel. It's the 1970s and Velvet Templeton is the thirtysomething administrative assistant to the head of Arc-7, the world's most classified espionage service. Someone decides it should be simple enough to frame her as a double-agent ... but Velvet isn...
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review 1: A bit inspired by the current show "Gotham" (which I really like so far) I re-read this collection that's connected in theme and setting and, no doubt, inspired the current show. Whereas "Gotham" is centered on the rise of a deteriorated city that would need a Batman "Gotham Cent...
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review 1: Alan Davis' work has never looked better, a reminder that when paired with an inker who is NOT Mark Farmer it just cannot compare. Ed Brubaker continues to write exciting Captain America stories, but this one falters a little. Though there's nothing that's inherently wrong with t...
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review 1: Reading this all out of interesting and it's still good. Even more Young Avengers backstory. I guess one of the differences of this group is that the characters are generally the story, not the super-villain. And generally the characters are worth knowing especially in this one. ...
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review 1: Noir meets Lovecraftian horror in this graphic novel. It's a slow burn that takes place in the 50s with a few men infatuated with one bizarre woman who has quite the pull on them. There are some horrific murders as well as some cult behaviour happening too. Honestly I was hoping ...
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review 1: Another favorite of mine. Imagine if the Riverdale kids, you know...Archie and the gang, were all real. Like very real, with adultry, murder, drugs and crime. I know how that might seem. Just trust me. Trust Brubaker & Phillips. Riley Richards is living the dream life, a good job...
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review 1: As far as Captain America stories go, I’m forced to admit that, for me, the movies are the source material. The comics are fine and all, I used to read Cap quite a bit when I was a youngster, but the Cap related movies have been so good that wherever they deviate from the comics,...
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review 1: Reprints Fatale #11-14 (January 2013-May 2013). Josephine is a woman searching for answers in 1936 and 1942 but her search could reach far into the past. With counterparts named Mathilda and Bonnie living in the Middle Ages and the Old West, Jo finds that the past she cannot re...
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review 1: This continues the crime noir/Cthulhu mashup of the first, but it has much less of a horror focus. In some ways it seems to be an exploration of what makes the Femme Fatale character. Josephine has retreated from the world so her power over men no longer ensnares as many men, bu...
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review 1: Brubaker continues his amazing run of espionage in the Marvel U with "Broken Arrow"!The missing sleeper agent from the first TPB is no longer missing and he is making things very personal for Bucky and the Black Widow. A well-paced and expertly plotted story that leaves plenty of...
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review 1: Sometimes better, sometimes worse than first trade. Joker story is very, very good. Probably the best so far. "Life is Full of Disappointments" was great though dragged at points. The art is incredible and iconic. Not enough Renee but a good amount of exposure for Dag, Procjnow a...
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review 1: This fourth volume builds on the greater character emphasis seen in the last volume. In some ways it's more successful. I found the plot genuinely engaging this time around and while the ideas here have been seen before. The story doesn't reveal it's full hand until the right mom...
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review 1: More excellent Brubaker-Phillips crime drama NOIR. Read other reviews for the plot regurgitations and over-explanations of the play-by-play. Simply put, All i would suggest is it would probably be helpful to read the prior TPB CRIMINAL compilations in order before jumping into t...
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review 1: A direct followup to Volume 2 (Lawless), the story takes the hero Lawless and ties him up into an even uglier situation than the previous, as he tries to solve a series of murders of 'untouchables.' Lawless isn't much of a detective, and events manage to take several turns for th...
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review 1: I enjoyed this enough - brought it all together and definitively closed out the stories. How it did it is a still a bit messy and I will need to reread to piece it together. But hey, its Cthulhu! everyone goes insane after witnessing unspeakable trans-dimensional events so a nice...
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review 1: This is the story the recent movie is based on, and is a great story. Reviving a character in comics who has been long dead is always a controversial subject around many comic fans. And the character in question was always viewed as a character many thought Marvel would never b...
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review 1: "I want to ask you not to use the signal...to let us handle this one by ourselves."It seems like every time there's a problem in Gotham City, Batman's got to swoop in and save the day. But what about the cops? They spend all their time chasing after criminals, only to admit defea...
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review 1: This is where I probably call it quits. I did not hate this series, but at this point I'm getting a little bored without getting any sort of clarity on who Jo really is. What is her story? Who are these men chasing her and what kind of monsters are they? All we get are storie...
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review 1: I didn't get into this one quite as much and while I'd already sent for the third in the series, if it doesn't draw me back it will probably be the last I read.Here we have, as you know if you've read the first volume of this graphic series, the story on an ex-super villain who n...
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review 1: Yes, I've been working on running through Ed Brubaker's time at Marvel Comics (excluding Daredevil). Here Brubaker makes very good use of Marvel continuity and history. When one evaluates the entire catalog of characters available to the company (pre-Disney ownership this inclu...
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review 1: Not bad I guess. I was a fan of the old Master of Kung-Fu comics back in the day so it was good to see Shang-Chi again. I also really enjoyed the Immortal Iron Fist series from a few years back so it was also a treat to see Prince of Orphans again. A character from Brubaker and E...
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review 1: Not bad, but at times internal chuckles at this work happened, as the feeling of a big self-parody began to develop..... Season two almost comes across as a send up and goof on the contrivances and cliches of season one. And the longer this went on, i began to suspect Holden is j...
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review 1: I really mean to give this 3.5 stars, but we can't choose 1/2's. I enjoyed the story. It definitely had that classic, "film noir" feel to it, with some black magic and monsters added for good measure. Kinda like Hell Boy. I enjoyed the bouncing back and forward in the timeline. T...
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review 1: I'm calling give-upsies on this graphic novel. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I sat down and read it all in one sitting, but I've only been reading it on my lunch break at work, so, I keep forgetting the story line and getting confused. My main reason for the low star...
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review 1: Fatale introduces Josephine, "Jo", a mysterious femme fatale, who has ties to a satanic (I think?) cult. As far as the first volume discloses, she is immortal and doesn't age. It's a noir/horror comic.The narrative switches between San Francisco in the 1930s and present day. Fata...
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review 1: Got to be honest upfront here, this is a 3 star book bumped up by a combo of Alan Davis' beautiful art, and the inclusion of Madbombs. If you all are not familiar with the old-school Madbomb arc by Jack Kirby, please track it down, it is amazing!That aside this is a fun arc from ...
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review 1: A good sci-fi coming-of-age. The ending is rushed by the series' premature cancellation and jarringly action-movie in comparison to the series' character-driven tone up to that point, but for the majority of Deadenders' run, Brubaker does a fine job developing the characters and ...
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review 1: This was another really great crime novel from this team. The only weakness in the book was that the characters weren't as sympathetic as the other criminals in this series but the plot, and art more than made up for it. Sean outdid himself combining his normally gorgeous noir st...
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review 1: Deep cover agent Holden Carver has landed himself in a nest of vipers where he can't trust anyone on either side, least of all himselfThis first issue of Sleeper is the first graphic novel I've ever read from acclaimed writing duo Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips of Criminal fame. S...
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review 1: As per usual, Brubaker delivers on the merger of super hero and espionage. This tales tells us what really happened to Bucky Barnes after the events of Fear Itself. (I hope this has been out long enough that I'm not spoiling anything- but if you are at all interested in Winter So...
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review 1: This volume of Fatale is unlike the others. It is comprised of several short stories depicting different stages of Josephine's life. More or less it reveals where Josephine came from and who she was before we were introduced to her in the first volume. The open question from the ...
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review 1: I didn't think it was possible for me to like this book more than the first one, but holy geez, I'm so into this. I can't put them down. Oh god. It's like I'm under Jo's spell. ANYWAY. The art in these books is lovely. Perfectly suited to the type of story it's designed to tell. ...
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review 1: Supernatural Noir, must be one of my favorite genres. In the back of this trade is an ad that lists all of the books that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have collaborated on. It reads:"Discover the many underworlds of Brubaker and Philips".I am happy to say, I have discovered them...
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review 1: The second in a series of four books chronicling the exploits of the GCPD, this was just as good as the initial book. Try as they might, the Gotham City Police Department cannot handle to types of super-villains without the help of Batman. They do a great job trying in this volum...
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review 1: La aparición de un letal francotirador (y la amenaza latente tras él) pone en jaque a un cuerpo policíaco que debe operar al límite de sus posibilidades, desnudando su cara falible en un ambiente entregado al pánico y la frustración. Sin duda, la entrega más sólida que Brubaker y...
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review 1: This one is better than the last volume, but it's still not as good as the first. I like how it's sort of folding in on itself, but I think I may just be over hardass dudes being hardasses and women being dames and dolls and so on.I think I'm done with this series, unless there's...
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review 1: I'm not sure how many ways I can say I like Brubaker's Crime Noir Comics. Each of them has been somewhere between good and great, and each for similar but distinct reasons. Brubaker tells a good crime story, but he's not just telling the same story over and over again. This wa...
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review 1: Over the last few weeks, I've read the first four volumes of Criminal. (Actually, I read the individual issues, but it adds up to the same thing.) This is a great series, if you like crime/noir stories. The stories are a *bit* over the top, but not nearly as much so as, say, Sin ...
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review 1: ... i prefer the Marvel movie-verse Rogers & Bucky, but this was still a good readNot quite sure what was goin on with THE CUBE subplot later (so we're gonna Green Goblin the RedSkull now? Dunno what else to call it)and reaaaaaaaaally didn't care for pages and pages of the usual ...
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review 1: Brubaker, you had me from the first page. Lark and Brubaker are a match in comic book heaven. Brubaker's noir sensibilities combined with Lark's gritty style. Brubaker does a great job joining a believable Cap'n spy story with the gee whiz bang gonzo American comic book action. E...
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review 1: This book would have been so much better if it had been the Winter Soldier who got reprogrammed and lost his memories of Black Widow, rather than the other way around. I'm just unreasonably pissed that it's yet another story in which a woman suffers serious physical and mental pa...
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review 1: Okay so I prefer the first volume than this one. Indeed, it widen the story about Zack Overkill, but still the first volume was a lot better written andnwell thought than this. This could use a lot more twist and a lot more plot points. I'm not saying that this is something that ...
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review 1: My first Captain America comic. I enjoyed it ... previously, my only experience with the Cap is from the recent Marvel movies, so I look forward to reading more comics soon. :)Brief content notes: it is rated "T" on the back cover. Typical comic book violence, onscreen deaths ...
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review 1: Misery. The Nihilist. Genocide. Pit Bull.This is the augmented spy company, Holden Carver is currently keeping. Based on those names are they the good guys or the bad guys? Fortunately for the reader, Ed Brubaker has Carver afloat in a sea of gray. He’s a deep undercover op...
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review 1: Finally, Brubaker and Lark have produced a collection of Daredevil stories that lives up to the hype surrounding their run. I have been unimpressed with the series since Bendis and Maleev moved on, as Brubaker and Lark have taken Daredevil and entangled him with ill-advised adven...
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review 1: First, Brubaker introduces some hardcore detective crime fiction to the DAREDEVIL series, and with "Cruel and Unusual," he delves deeper into the concept of justice and its relative & fragile nature.Readers will be relieved, so to write, that Matt Murdock finds a bit of relief af...
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review 1: I have a soft spot approximately two miles wide for MCU Steve, before he gets the serum. It's probably something vaguely maternal about wanting to protect him, but either way, I think he's precious. There's a bit of that here, but not that much. It's a fun little story, even disc...
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review 1: This was really terrible. Not only are the characters completely utterly bland, the art is cringe-worthy and the dialogue laughable, with weirdly emphasized words, which makes for some hilarious times if you read it aloud. So while I'll always have fond memories and some inside j...
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review 1: The third omnibus of Ed Brubaker’s award-winning run on Captain America continues to be outstanding on multiple levels, from the dark-toned artwork to the realistic sounding dialogue to Brubaker’s uncanny ability to weave multiple arcs together to make the entire run feel like on...
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review 1: I tried to buy a copy of this from Gosh about 3 hours after it was released and they were already sold out so I ended up ordering it from Forbidden Planet. Ed and Sean are my favourite writer/artist pair at the moment. The make beautiful film noir comics together and it is nice t...