The Fade Out Volume 1
Brubaker and Phillips' newest hit series, The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike...
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Brubaker and Phillips' newest hit series, The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true. The Fade Out is Brubaker and Phillips' most ambitious project yet!
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781632151711 (1632151715)
ASIN: 1632151715
Publish date: 2015-03-10
Publisher: Image Comics
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
I picked this one up because a friend of mine recommended it to me and I am so glad I did because I liked it a lot! The murder/mystery is my favorite genre so I knew I was going to like the story, but this goes so much farther than that. The story starts simply enough: A movie star is found dead b...
A dead actress and a writer plagued by nightmares
One word for this graphic novel. Atmosphere. I definitely felt like I was in the late 1940s Hollywood. But the real Hollywood, not the glamorous, shining synthetic world that so many people in the industry tried to project. The point of view is from a screenwriter deeply immersed in the studio syste...
Offensive racist stereotyping, rampant sexism, an abundance of rape, clichéd and disjointed storytelling and an unwieldy cast of homogenous characters of which to keep track – what’s not to love about this 1940s noir in graphic novel form? Continue reading →
I really liked the setting, the end of Hollywood's Golden Age with the many scandals being covered up and a lot of other problems. Charlie is a writer with PTSD who also seems to have troubles writing anything after the war. When, after a party he discovers a murdered women besides him, he starts to...
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