“Here’s something few people know, but the original Batman: The Animated Series was one of the things that made me want to write superhero comics in general, and Batman in particular,” Brubaker told THR in a statement. He was also the co-writer and co-creator of Gotham Central, which took a street-level, police point-of-view approach to Gotham City’s underbelly. In fact, the books that helped make Brubaker’s name were Batbooks from the early 2000s, among them was the highly regarded Catwoman comics with artist Darwyn Cooke. (Winter Soldier actor Sebastian Stan last month teased fans with a photo of himself reading a Reckless graphic novel.)Īnd Brubaker is no stranger to the world of the Caped Crusader. You gotta have it.'Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham' Sets Voice Cast (Exclusive)ĭetails remain deep in the Batcave, but when the show was announced in May 2021, the producers pointed to Timm’s genre-defining 1990s Batman: The Animated Series as a benchmark and said the goal was to “once again reinvent Batman and his iconic rogue’s gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters and intense action sequences all set in a visually striking world.” Check out the exclusive piece of early development art above.īrubaker may be best known as the co-creator of the Winter Soldier, the popular Marvel character that co-headlined his own Disney+ series last year, but in the last decade, he has made a career of plumbing the depths of the immoral mind with his pulpy and acclaimed Criminal and Reckless comic works. This one comes at you as fast as Steve McQueen in a souped-up Mustang and as hard as Charles Bronson with a baseball bat. "RECKLESS is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. No one does crime fic like BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS and their collaboration has never felt more new. in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break. “Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. Working class setting covering up for a deeper societal rot, a battered, damaged (literally) protagonist against the beast, and all of it squirming and lunging through an over-lit early 80s L.A. “Oh man this book pushed EVERY crime fiction button for me. But when a fugitive from his radical student days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears…his own past. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. A bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own.
Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher.ĮD BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them-a good guy.
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