Ed Brubaker

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About Ed Brubaker

Ed Brubaker is one of the most acclaimed writers in comics, winning five best writer Eisner and Harvey Awards in the last ten years.

His bestselling work with Sean Phillips on CRIMINAL, INCOGNITO, FATALE, and THE FADE OUT has been translated around the world to great acclaim, and Marvel's movies featuring his co-creation, The Winter Soldier, have all been international blockbusters.

Ed lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their crazy dog, where he works in comics, film, and television. He was a writer and Supervising Producer for the first season of HBO's WESTWORLD, and is the co-creator and co-writer of TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG with Nicolas Winding Refn.

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Reckless Dec 16, 2020

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

( 580 )

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Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher.

ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them—a good guy. 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.

Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his radical student days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears…his own past.

“Oh man this book pushed EVERY crime fiction button for me. 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. Noir bleached to bleakness. Bliss." —Patton Oswalt

“Imagine Redford at his peak, ambling through sun-drenched, eighties L.A. in a serpentine plot that is equal parts Long Goodbye and Point Break. No one does crime fic like BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS and their collaboration has never felt more new. Explosive. Vital. And yes...reckless. I love this book.”
—Damon Lindelof (Lost, HBO’s Watchmen)

"RECKLESS is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. 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. You gotta have it."
—Joe Hill (Locke & Key, N0S4A2)

Look for Book Two in the RECKLESS series in April 2021!

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The Ghost In You: A Reckless Book Apr 13, 2022

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

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The fourth book in the bestselling RECKLESS series is here! Crime noir masters ED BRUBAKER & SEAN PHILLIPS present yet another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.

It’s the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town, so this time, Anna has to tackle the job on her own. When a movie scream queen asks her to prove the mansion she’s renovating isn’t haunted, Anna will stumble into the decades-long mystery of one of Hollywood’s most infamous murder houses…a place with many dark secrets—some of which might just kill her.

Another hit from the award-winning creators of PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED—and a must-have for all ED BRUBAKER & SEAN PHILLIPS fans!

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Pulp Jul 29, 2020

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

( 602 )

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A gorgeous original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of KILL OR BE KILLED, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, and CRIMINAL.

Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word—tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?

One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, PULP is unlike anything award-winning BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS have ever done before. This celebration of pulp fiction set in a world on the brink is another must-have hardcover from one of comics’ most acclaimed teams.

“Like Scorsese and De Niro, BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS are the unmatched masters of a certain kind of storytelling. A new title from the sharpshooters behind Fatale and Criminal is reason enough to go on living.” —Joe Hill (Locke & Key)

Other Formats: Hardcover , Paperback

Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book Oct 20, 2021

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

( 216 )

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The next book in the red-hot RECKLESS series is here!

"Oh man, this book pushed every crime fiction button for me...Bliss." —PATTON OSWALT

Bestselling crime noir masters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS bring us a new original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.

It's 1988, and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. How hard could that be, right? But what starts as a deep dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and Ethan will risk everything that still matters to him.

Another smash hit from the award-winning creators of RECKLESS, PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED—and a must-have for all BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS fans!

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Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection (Captain America (2004-2011)) Apr 14, 2010

by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Mike Perkins, Michael Lark

( 480 )

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Collects Captain America #1-9 & #11-14.

A midnight call to duty brings Captain America aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D Heli-carrier to identify the corpse of his most feared adversary: the Red Skull! The shocking murder of Cap’s oldest enemy may not be the end of the Skull’s plans, however, because whoever shot the Skull has stolen his final project: an unfinished Cosmic Cube with the potential power to alter reality itself. Adding to the imminent danger, a cadre of the Skull’s followers has already set in motion a plan to ignite bombs in the hearts of Paris, London and Manhattan – causing untold death and destruction. Racing against these bombs’ rapidly ticking clocks, the Star-Spangled Avenger must not only solve the mystery of his nemesis’ murder, but find the Cube before it can be used in the Red Skull’s malevolent plot against the United States! Then, the questions plaguing Captain America's dreams and memories have been answered in the most brutal way possible. And in the wake of this brutality, General Lukin makes his first all-out assault – tearing open old wounds and threatening to make new scars that will never heal!

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Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book Apr 28, 2021

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips

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The next book in the red-hot RECKLESS series is here!

"No one does crime fic like BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS, and their collaboration has never felt more new. Explosive. Vital. And yes...reckless."—DAMON LINDELOF (Lost, HBO's Watchmen)

Bestselling crime noir masters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS are back with another new original graphic novel featuring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.
It's 1985, and things in Ethan's life are going pretty well...until a missing woman shows up in the background of an old B-movie, and Ethan is drawn into Hollywood's secret occult underbelly as he hunts for her among the wreckage of the wild days of the '70s.
Another hit from the award-winning creators of PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED—a must-have for all BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS fans!
And look for the next standalone book in the RECKLESS series in October!

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Captain America: Red Menace (Captain America (2004-2011)) Jun 15, 2011

by Ed Brubaker, Mike Perkins, Javier Pulido, Marcos Martin, Steve Epting

( 175 )

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Collects CAPTAIN AMERICA (2004) #15-21. Crossbones and Sin have come to the American Midwest to tear a new hole in A.I.M. -- but none of them counted on Cap stumbling into the mix, and everything going wrong!

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My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies Oct 10, 2018

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips

( 259 )

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The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE. Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie mother ten years ago. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it appears to be... she’ll find another more dangerous romance, and find out how easily drugs and murder go hand-in-hand. MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES is a seductive coming-of-age story, a pop and drug culture-fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness... and what she finds there. A gorgeous must-have hardback from the award-winning team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, with acclaimed color artist ELIZABETH BREITWEISER.

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X-Men: Messiah Complex Oct 29, 2008

by Various, Marc Silvestri, Billy Tan, Chris Bachalo, Humberto Ramos, Scot Eaton

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Collects X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #492-494, New X-Men (2004) #44-46, X-Men (2004) #205-207, X-Factor (2005) #25-27. The first mutant since HOUSE OF M has arrived. Will she bring salvation or destruction to the X-Men and all mutankind?

Other Formats: Hardcover , Paperback , Comic Book

Captain America: Trial of Captain America (Captain America (2004-2011)) Oct 26, 2011

by Ed Brubaker, Butch Guice, Mitch Breitweiser, Daniel Acuña, Daniel Acuna, Jackson Guice

( 30 )

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Collects Captain America #611-615 & 615.1.

Not even Captain America can escape the sins buried in his past, and Bucky Barnes' future hangs in the balance as evidence of the Winter Soldier's crimes comes to light. And with Bucky's trial distracting our heroes, the new Red Skull plots a terror attack at the heart of America!

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The Fade Out Nov 14, 2018

by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Elizabeth Breitweiser

( 328 )

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A bold new paperback edition of the entire Eisner Award-winning tale of Hollywood in the early days of the Blacklist! THE FADE OUT tracks the murder of an up-and-coming starlet from studio backlots to the gutters of downtown Los Angeles, as shell-shocked front man Charlie Parish is caught between his own dying sense of morality and his best friend’s righteous sense of justice. A picture-perfect recreation of a lost era, THE FADE OUT is an instant classic from the bestselling team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, with acclaimed color artist ELIZABETH BREITWEISER. Collects THE FADE OUT #1-12

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Captain America: The Death of Captain America Vol. 3: The Man Who Bought America Feb 25, 2009

by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Butch Guice, Mike Perkins, Roberto De la Torre, Rick Magyar, Fabio Laguna, Luke Ross

( 37 )

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Collects Captain America #37-42.
The saga of the New Captain America continues! He's doing his best to carry on the legacy of Steve Rogers, but things go from bad to worse for Bucky Barnes when the Red Skull makes an unexpected move for the very soul of America!

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