They are as comfortable in a big, corporate superhero universe as they are in their own, creator-owned tales.īrubaker’s protagonists are often criminals, but even when they are not, they all share one thing: They are deeply flawed. Sometimes their stories are set in Hollywood in the days after World War II, sometimes they’re in modern New York City. They move across genres with ease, sometimes telling stories of hard-bitten criminals, sometimes tales of supernatural horror. But their work is so much more than that. And, yes, a lot of their comics would be considered crime stories. When people talk about Brubaker and Phillips, most would say they write crime comics. Of today’s creators, one pair will likely go down in the same storied history: Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Some comic creators’ names are eternally linked. By MATTHEW LAZORWITZ, WMQ Comics senior contributor
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