If you're looking for a summer read, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Reckless is excellent L.A. sun-splashed noir. Imagine Jim Rockford as a reluctantly nihilistic, down and out surf-bum rattling around in the backwash of 80's L.A. Inspired by Richard Stark's Parker, as interpreted by Darwyn Cooke, the sooty inks against muted pastels are more successful than Nicolas Winding Refn and Brubaker's L.A.-set noir, Too Old to Die Young. Summer heat coupled with the smells of sweat, cheap beer, and surf are perfectly captured in each panel and page. Skip the screen. These panels offer everything you need for a trip to the seedy underbelly of Southern California.
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