If you enjoy Ed Brubaker’s super hero work on Captain America, Daredevil, X-Men, Catwoman but never tried his crime noir (Criminal: The Sinners, Lawless, and more collections) take a shot with Fatale #1 new in stores this week. Brubaker teams with Sean Phillips for this new series that takes the duo into strange new territory.
A funeral, a mysterious vamp that would make might make Hitchcock and Hammett blush, cult symbols, a Nazi flashback and some very gruesome killings are elements in this potent mix of crime noir and supernatural horror.
This is an old Hollywood flavored mystery with stakes that aren’t just a matter of life and death but it could mean salvation. There’s a dark magic in this book and I’m hooked.