While each entry in Reckless is stand alone, designed to be read in any order, Follow Me Down is a companion to The Ghost In You, chronicling Ethan’s adventures that ran concurrent with Anna’s in the previous book. What happens to our emotionally numb anti-hero’s outlook on life when he’s not so numb? And is that numbness a blessing in disguise?įollow Me Down is a subtle and welcome break in the established Reckless formula, presenting a philosophical counterweight to what we’ve come to know about Ethan.

It’s a book that places a sharp contrast between its internal cathartic moment, and the expectations created by the rest of the series. While in pursuit of a woman named Rachel, the latest book in the Reckless series by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips, asks us to interrogate how far we have fallen, and what we can never quite let go of.

If you enjoy crime stories, this one is worth looking into.Just like Alice followed the white rabbit down to wonderland, we again return to Ethan Reckless, as a case cascades him down to hell in the new graphic novel, Follow Me Down. This is supposedly the last volume in the “Reckless” series (volume #5,) and I love that it functions so well as a standalone story. I think pacing is what this book does so masterfully, such that even though the lead character may be a functional psychopath there’s a strong emotional resonance to the story. Finding the girl draws him into a greater mission. Ethan isn’t a PI but engages in “problem-solving” activities – often of a legally questionable variety. The book knows what it is, given the almost camp tone of a lead with the surname “Reckless.”) The protagonist, Ethan Reckless, is hired to track down a missing young woman. (Perhaps, because the pacing and drama of the love story are more realistic than the depictions of action – which isn’t a criticism. In the manner of Hollywood films, it’s over-the-top in places, but it’s also a visceral and (at times) touching story. This hard-boiled crime graphic novel is a gritty PI story turned grittier revenge journey. Get Speechify to make any book an audiobook

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