Ed Brubaker didn't write a monthly book in 2020, but he still made quite the impact. He decided that graphic novels are the future instead of monthly floppies so he put out two original graphic novels this year, Pulp and Reckless. He also wrote two issues of his book Friday that were released on a pay-what-you-want scale for the Panel Syndicate website. All three books were pretty different, but they all featured Brubaker's classic writing style. He loves using the inner monologue of his main characters to tell the story, and it's the perfect way to do it in a comic book.
His stuff flows wonderfully and is so easy to read, everything just washes over you and you're instantly alive in this fantasy world that feels oh-so real. His books have always been dark, but they're also filled with emotion, despair, longing. His characters just seem to jump right off the page, and his plots are always so intriguing and often wild. Reckless had perhaps the best opening sequence of any comic this year. It's the first in a series of a guy that solves problems. Kind of a gangster superhero type. Friday was a book about a girl coming home from college and getting swept back up in the small town mysteries she used to help solve as a teenage detective. And Pulp is about a down on his luck, old writer. It also happens to feature Nazis and cowboys, go figure. All three of these books were different but they were all compelling and entertaining. Brubaker's been one of the best comic book writers for the last 20 years at least, and in 2020 he proved that he's still at the top of his game.
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