How far along the checklist of life are you by this point? When the music stops, where will you sit? In Destroy All Monsters - the third book of the Reckless series by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Philips - we take a meditative dive into the various growing pains and anxieties of age. At the same time, leaving your 20s can be a terrifying proposition for the opposite reason: now is the time for you to solidify who you are. Going from 36 to 37, for example, doesn’t necessarily mean your material circumstances change but rather your ability to maneuver in those circumstances. This series will be a must have for public libraries, but may be a little too mature for school libraries.By Steve Baxi - Aging is relative. This is the first of a three-part series that is set to be released over the next year. The story and illustrations work extremely well together, it’s no surprise they have decided to work together again.Īward winning and nominated series by the two include: “Fade Out,” “Criminals” and “Fatale.” Fan’s of their work will quickly add this to their must-read list. A pulp fiction that follows a roughneck detective on the trail. “Reckless” is full of everything readers of Brubaker and Phillips have come to love from the Eisner award winning duo. He faces one of his toughest cases spanning the entire state of California and runs into plenty of hiccups along the way.īlood, drugs and beatdowns fill these pages meant for a mature audience. Reckless takes the case and tracks Wilder for her. Wilder took off after the robbery and claimed there was no money, but Rainy believes otherwise. She wants him to track down a man named Wilder who she robbed a bank with and retrieve her cut of the money they stole. One day he receives a message from an old acquaintance asking him to meet up about a certain person named “Donovan Rush.” Intrigued, he travels to meet with this mystery woman who turns out to be Rainy, an ex-lover from a decade ago and she has a job for Reckless. Lately money has been hard to come by and jobs aren’t as attractive as they once were. Ethan Reckless is a man who’s made a living picking up side jobs tracking down people and things and collecting a bounty for his services.

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