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Westworld writer ED BRUBAKER collects a deluxe hardcover for THE FADE OUT
The New York Times bestseller and recent Eisner Award-winner for Best Limited Series THE FADE OUT by writer Ed Brubaker, artist Sean Phillips, and colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser is now available in a deluxe hardcover edition. T...
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REVIEW: ‘The Fade Out, Vol. 3: Act Three’ is the REAL Show Business
What is more important in narrating a story, the journey or the ending? That is the question I am still pondering while reflecting the final arc of the critically-acclaimed noir and crime-and-suspense thriller, The Fade Out, Vo...
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FLIPGEEKS YEAR IN REVIEW: The Best of 2015 in COMICS
2015 has been a very good year for the comic book industry, local and international! There were some ups and downs, from Secret Wars to Convergence, from Star Wars to , from Komiket to no Summer Komikon, from Asia Pop Comic C...
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REVIEW: Satisfying and yet infuriating end on ‘The Fade Out #12′
There is no business like show business. That is how Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ The Fade Out #12 turns out. As the writer himself says over and over again, The Fade Out is a mini-series and this twelfth chapter is the clima...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW: The Fade Out #9
SECRET SHARED HISTORY The Fade Out series is now embarking to its ultimate story arc by showing once and for all the key historical moments that started the so-called “beautiful” collaboration/friendship turned into uneasy and ...
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GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: The Fade Out, Vol. 2: Act Two
UNDER THE NOSE Here are some of the “secret ingredients” of a great suspense thriller: couple of murder scenes; a pinch of intrigues; a tablespoon of gossips; a touch of backstabbing SOBs; drops of boozes; another round of blac...
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GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: The Fade Out Vol. 1, An epic noir in the Golden Era of Hollywood
In the ongoing tradition of releasing compilations right after an arc or story ended, Image Comics proudly presents one of its highly acclaimed titles, THE FADE OUT Vol. 1. This volume comprises issue one to four of the critica...
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Why is ED BRUBAKER Awesome ?
I know many comic aficionados and readers are already familiarized and read Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison’s respective opuses. To more sophisticated types, the names Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek, Garth Ennis, J...
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Hollywood goes Noir with THE FADE OUT Volume 1
Hollywood has always had a dark side, and for writer Ed Brubaker, known for his crime fiction work as well as his acclaimed runs on Batman and Captain America, and artist Sean Phillips, who’s had work on the likes of Hell...