I had a hard time not tearing up at the dramatic ending of this. Remember the Clint Eastwood movie The Unforgiven? it’s one of my favorites of his, and it comes to mind when I was reading this. Told in the first person, this is realistic, captivating, and you just don’t know where it’s all going to end up. I really, really enjoyed reading this and am going to go after more of Brubaker’s work.

But now Max is having his own issues, has been tracked down by a retired Pinkerton detective, and might be able to make one last big score.īut there is much more to this outstanding story and I refuse to give it away.

Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderĪn original graphic novel from the bestselling creators–it may look like a western, but the story begins in New York City in 1939! Max Winters, an aging pulp writer, 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 (secretly based on his own outlaw youth in the real west).

“Pulp” is the latest original graphic novel from the “Criminal” creative pair, following “My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies” and “Bad Weekend.” It will be released in hardcover in comics shops on May 20, and in bookstores on May 26. Hopefully I don’t have to draw too many horses. Phillips added, “I asked Ed to write me a Western and this is as close as he could get. I thought about all these writers telling fictionalized versions of the vanishing days of the Wild West, as their own world was going through one of its darkest hours… And suddenly I realized I had the makings of a really great pulp story, but one set in the real world. Set for release in May, the book takes place during the 1930s and follows Max Winters, a pulp magazine writer specializing in westerns who finds himself hunted by “bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past.”īrubaker said in the press release, “When Sean and I decided to do something completely new for our next original graphic novel, he planted the idea of a Western in my head… And I found myself drawn to the era where that genre first hit big-the pulp magazines and the Great Depression. Image Comics have announced “Pulp,” a new graphic novel by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips.

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