by Ed Brubaker
(Author), Sean Phillips (Artist),
Jacob Phillips (Artist)
Publisher : Image Comics (December 22, 2020)
Hardcover, 144 pages
Nowadays about the only thing I anticipate in comics
is when Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips come up with another story, or continue
and old story. Granted I’m aware it’s usually a man-against-the-world story,
where a protagonists with a harsh internal struggle to resolves is manipulated
by forces just outside his vision to complete a violent task, often leaving
said protagonist was it all worth it? Still the pair does these stories so
well. I am thoroughly entertained every time. And Reckless was no exception.
Ethan Reckless is a hero-for-hire type. You call his unlisted phone number at an abandoned movie palace and leave a message describing the problem plaguing your life. If he’s interested he’ll call you back and solve your problem. Set in the early 1980s, it’s reminiscent of a lot of TV shows at the time. Men who would travel from town to town putting rights to things, each with their own gimmick. BJ and the Bear, Knight Rider, The A-Team all worked along similar lines. This story of the violent hippie underground terrorist movements after the 1960s turning the foundation of drug smuggling rings is a little more violent than a typical episode of BJ and the Bear, but that doesn’t make it less enjoyable.
The man character is an ex-FBI agent who was caught up
in an explosion lit by the domestic leftist terrorist group he was
investigating. The person who emerged from the wreckage was someone else
entirely. A person who had the same name and memories, but had no emotional
attachment to the past. Already a sequel is coming out in a couple of months.
Unlike their previous works, it seems as if this will be an episodic series
with a new case opening and closing in each volume.
For more readings, try books by Rex Hurst
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