When it comes to creative teams in comics, one of the best is the multiple Eisner Award-winning duo of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Now Brubaker and Phillips are back with two graphic novel hardcovers from Image Comics. Pulp will be available in July, while Cruel Summer will come out in August.
Brubaker and Phillips are behind such hits as My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies and Bad Weekend.
The original graphic novel Pulp, however, is unlike anything they have ever done. A tale of ’30s-era crime, Pulp is a celebration of pulp fiction, set in a world on the brink.
Pulp fiction
Pulp follows the adventures of Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York.
As you can see from these inside pages provided by Image Comics, Max finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word. Tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun.
But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?
If you loved The Fade Out and Criminal, then this pulp fiction thriller from one of comics’ most acclaimed creative teams is perfect for you.
Summer of ’88
Meanwhile, Cruel Summer is set in the summer of ’88. It tells the story of Teeg Lawless, a man who comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career.
But Teeg’s son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives.
The Pulp hardcover edition will be available on July 29 and in bookstores on August 4. Meanwhile, the Cruel Summer hardcover edition will be available on August 12 and in bookstores on August 18.
Both will also be available across many digital platforms, including the official Image Comics iOS app, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.
