![]() ![]() ![]() However, while I certainly share several of his references (from film noir and mystery yarns to heist thrillers and espionage), I don’t think his style always does justice to the material at hand. I love much of Ed Brubaker’s work, especially the period pieces The Fade Outand Pulp, along with the spy series Velvet and Sleeper. Vaughan and Rick Remender – tend to target smart, iconoclastic teens, Brubaker seems to be going for a slightly more pretentious crowd for whom comics should be taken as seriously as the kind of films and novels discussed on the back of his books. While other popular creators from the last couple of decades – like Brian K. You can see a quest for maturity and respectability all over his fan-favorite runs on Daredevil and Captain America, not to mention in his collaborations with Sean Phillips for Icon and Image Comics (most notably the neo-noir series Criminal), whose backmatter often includes additional articles on cinema and literature. Heavily influenced by crime fiction and by the superhero revisionist turn of the 1980s, he has continually sought to imbue American comics with a greater degree of realism, psychological depth, decompressed pace, and adult content like sex and drugs (played not for outrageous shock value, but with a generally tasteful sensibility that treats them as important elements in many people’s lives). ![]() ![]() Ed Brubaker is one of the most critically acclaimed comic book writers of the 21 st century. ![]()
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