Incognito

The universe that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips created for this book is simply amazing. It's a clear homage to those sickf**k pulp novels from the 30s or the 40s and the "colorful" gallery of characters that inspire creators of these last decades. I think that's one of the aspects that I love of this particular book, it has: old fashioned Ray Guns, Mad Doctors, Torture and that's incredibly nailed by Phillips' art, which, is not as "perfect" or "flashy" like other artists out there, but moody and noirish. No wonder why Ed Brubaker has collaborated that much with him. Sometimes I wonder why this sort of stuff isn't published by Heavy Metal magazine, 'coz it's the kind of stuff I'd likely read in that awesome mag. Not in everyday comics, or at least not in the so-called Big Two, which, fortunately don't dominate the whole industry, and this sort of work proves my point.