
The two had formed a sweet quasi-father-daughter surrogate relationship, but now Anna has more age-appropriate friends – including a boyfriend Ethan can’t stand – and a new apartment across the impenetrable 405 freeway on the other side of LA.

Anna has been a background supporting player throughout the Reckless books, but here takes a central spotlight, having grown up and become restless working with Ethan. While the first entry opened in 1981, Destroy All Monsters starts in ’88, with private-handyman-for-hire Ethan Reckless opining this was “the year I started to feel old.” Noir is a nostalgic genre anyway, and Destroy All Monsters sees Ethan melancholically reflect as the world changes and is rebuilt around him.Įthan’s sense of age is only exacerbated through his friendship with his younger “projectionist-slash-assistant” Anna.

But within the world of Reckless, quite a bit of time has passed. Language eng Summary It's 1988 and Ethan has been hired for his strangest case yet: finding the secrets of a Los Angeles real estate mogul.In typical pulp paperback pace, Destroy All Monsters is the third Reckless book that Brubaker and Phillips have published in a year. Nineteen seventies - Comic books, strips, etc.Nineteen eighties - Comic books, strips, etc.Missing persons - Comic books, strips, etc.


Label Destroy all monsters : a reckless book Title Destroy all monsters Title remainder a reckless book Statement of responsibility by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips colors by Jacob Phillips Creator
