Sean Phillips
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A lavish, career-spanning retrospective of the acclaimed artist behind Criminal, Sleeper, Incognito, and Fatale! Sean Phillips has personally selected the very best examples of his art for inclusion, from comic strips assembled with childhood friend through his work for 2000AD and Vertigo, from his superhero titles for Marvel and DC through his creator-owned series with Ed Brubaker. Also, the renowned artist has been extensively interviewed, along...
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Criminal volume 1
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In three interwoven noir stories, a vengeful woman returns home and two friends get caught in her plot.
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Criminal volume 6
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Tells a story of brotherly love and hate, as Tracy Lawless finally returns home to find out who murdered his kid brother, and how much their family history has doomed them both.
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 5
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"In the wake of the 1989 earthquake, Ethan takes a trip to San Francisco to search for a missing woman. But almost immediately he finds himself going down a path of darkness and murder in her wake, in a case unlike anything he's faced before"--
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Criminal volume 1
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The traditional heist story is turned on its head in COWARD. Leo can plan the perfect score, but only if he can be convinced the job is safe, because Leo is not a shoot-first think-later type of criminal. Leo is a professional, whose biggest desire in life is not to end up exactly where he belongs: in a prison cell.
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Fatale volume 4
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Nicholas Lash lost everything when he met Josephine, and now her trail of secrets leads him to mid-'90s Seattle, and the tragic story of a struggling grunge band, and the beautiful woman with amnesia who stumbles into their world. Is she their muse? Will she save them from "One-Hit Wonder" status? Or is she something much worse, especially since there's a psycho killer hunting her?
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Kill or be killed volume 3
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In the third volume of acclaimed noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' bestselling series, things are finally going well for our vigilante hero Dylan. He's on the right meds, his vigilante days are behind him, and the demon is nowhere to be found. Everything should be perfect, right? And it would be, if only the Russian mob would stop searching for the masked man who killed the boss's favorite cousin. Sooner or later, they're going to find Dylan...
9) Reckless
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 1
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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. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears ... his own past." --
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Fade out volume 1
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Modern day reporter Nicolas Lash learns of a secret involving an ageless woman who has been on the run since the 1930s, while reporter Hank Raines meets the same woman in 1950s San Francisco.
11) Night fever
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"In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can't sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark... And the question is, what will he do to get home?"--Amazon.com.
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 4
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"The fourth book in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring us yet another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless. Except this time it's the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town, so Anna must tackle this 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...
13) Pulp
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"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?"--Provided by publisher.
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Kill or be killed volume 2
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"In the second volume of Brubaker and Phillips' bestselling new series, things go from bad to worse for our vigilante hero, Dylan, as the NYPD begin to realize there's a masked man killing bad guys all over the five boroughs. As a task force is assembled to hunt him down, Dylan finds himself falling further into the darkness of the twisted pact he made with the demon"--Back cover.
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Kill or be killed volume 4
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"In the fourth and final volume of Brubaker and Phillips' bestselling series, our vigilante hero finally comes to the end of his rope. Unsure if there's a demon in his head telling him to kill bad people or if he's just insane, Dylan checks into a mental hospital. But hidden away in the snow-covered countryside, he finds his real-world problems have followed him there ... and there may be no way to go back to the life he used to know."--Provided by...
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Kill or be killed volume 1
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"Dylan is just an average, depressed grad student until a failed suicide attempt changes everything he knows and propels him, against his will, into a life of vigilante justice."--page 4 of cover
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Fade out volume 0
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A continuation of the series about a movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star, and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true.
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 2
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"Meet Ethan Reckless: your trouble is his business, for a price. A former Sixties radical and undercover agent, Ethan is one part repo man, one part private eye, and one part wrecking ball. Now 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."...
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Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 3
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"Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, winners of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel, are back with their third book in their red-hot RECKLESS series...It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: digging up the dirty secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul. But what starts as a slow dive into the life of a stranger will soon take a deadly turn, and find Ethan risking everything that still matters...
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Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, and a must-have for all their avid fans! A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder...