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He actually hadn’t thought about his time in Hollywood for years... Until his uncle’s old suitcase showed up that day... With the bound screenplays and the note inside...
“Fuck.”
But we’ll get to that...
We surely shall.
From the creators of KILL OR BE KILLED, WHERE THE BODY WAS, FATALE et al (the best noir by far in comics), a substantial new chunk of CRIMINAL, their most intricately woven web of personal, up-close crime which moves backwards and forwards in time.
Each of the 11 books can be your first. As you learn more you’ll care more for each individual who may at any given point appear as middle-aged, a miscalculation, a child, teenager, washed-up waste of potential, or on a slab.
All reviewed on our website, but ask me in person and I’ll give you 3 spoiler-free intros (books 1, 3 or 6 for different reasons). Thanks to Phillips each comes with the best character acting in the business (subtle body language, nuanced, half-lit expressions), and such worrying shadows that I peer round corners and down dark stairs on the protagonists’ behalf. Plus Brubaker provides such gripping, conversational voice-overs that you’ll you crave time spent in each individual’s messed-up mind.
In 2012 Jacob Kurtz sets off for Hollywood: a TV studio hasn’t just optioned his syndicated comic strip ‘Frank Kafka, Private Eye’, it’s gone straight into production. But catering to the lowest common denominator to reach the widest audience, it bears bugger all resemblance to its source material.
“There’s nothing surreal, or absurd... nothing funny... It’s just... a TV show."
“Well, welcome to fuckin’ Hollywood.”
“Don’t rock the boat,” Jacob is warned. But it’s not Jacob who will rock the boat.
In 2019 Angie is about to lose her foster Dad, Gnarly. Just as she’s breaking into a flat via its fire escape. Heartbroken and riddled with guilt for failing to appreciate Gnarly’s care, Angie is about to lose much more. She winds up in Jacob’s house from time to time. But it’s the time between times when she makes her worst decisions. And maybe she should have come clean.
“But life is full of maybes.”
