Look at their names all big, bold, and grayscale. Like a movie marquee. These guys are fucking celebrities. And in case you haven't read anything by Brubaker and Sean Phillips yet (something like Sleeper or Criminal), then understand: these guys are comic book celebrities, of the first order. And your first order is to eat up every goddam thing these two are involved with before they get lured away by TV or movies or freaking video games I guess... one of the many visual literary media that pays a helluva lot better than the comics industry. And then maybe, just maybe, these cats will keep churning out one amazing four-color rag after another and the world will be that much closer to its realization as an idyllic land of free Wi-Fi and rampant funnybook aficionados.So, today, Friday the 2nd of January in freshly-hatched 2009 (or any subsequent day I suppose... just don't dawdle), run over to your nearest comic shop and pick up the first issue of the new Brubaker & Phillips jam: Incognito. Zack Overkill is a former supervillain in witness protection. He turned his former boss Black Death over to the feds years ago and has been sedated with powers-suppressing medication ever since. Or has he..?
Make it a New Year's Resolution, my friends: Read More Comics. I'm here to help. And start by helping yourself to the year's first really exciting new book. Also includes a pretty great article on the pulp history of The Shadow.
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My LCS has exactly ZERO copies of this on the shelf, and no hole where it used to be.
Fortunately for me I put it on my pull list a long time ago (before I had even really started reading their stuff) because clearly I am some kind of genius and knew I would love it even before I knew why I would.
I think it got off to a pretty great start. It's really extremely different than Criminal, but I guess that's why it has a different title on the cover. One way it is the same as criminal is that it is written well and drawn well, and certainly seems to have a lot of characters and plot threads dangling around to be fleshed out.
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