Where The Body Was
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- 17,99 €
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- 17,99 €
Publisher Description
ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, bestselling creators of PULP, RECKLESS, and CRIMINAL, are back with a new original graphic novel that readers will be obsessed with…A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks shes a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a private detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in WHERE THE BODY WAS, a tale of love and murder in the suburbs, told from a dozen different points of view. All the neighbors on the block have an opinion about the murder and how it happened, but which of them is telling the truth?WHERE THE BODY WAS is a tour-de-force from grandmasters ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS. Starting with a map of the crime scene, this murder mystery follows the ripples of this killing as they echo through decades of love and loss and passion and violence. Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, WHERE THE BODY WAS is unlike anything BRUBAKER PHILLIPS have ever done and a must-have for all their avid fans!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A quiet suburban block heats up with drugs, suspicion, and murder over the summer of 1984 in this accomplished if abbreviated outing from Brubaker and Phillips (the Reckless series). The duo bring their trademark wry and world-weary tone to a tangle of badly kept secrets and neatly packaged twists. A nosy neighbor, one of many narrators in a crowded ensemble, describes how a fight at a run-down boarding house on the block kicked off assorted mayhem: "the break-ins... the murder... heartbreak." Other characters include a bored wife engaged in an affair with her police detective neighbor, drugged-up teens on a burglary spree, a private investigator looking for a lost girl, and a roller-skating 11-year-old self-appointed neighborhood guardian whose cape and mask style her like a G-rated Hit-Girl. Brubaker barely sets up his story elements, which Phillips depicts in his usual pulpy realism, before cuing the chain reaction that leads to the tidily constructed climax—unsatisfying dramatically but greatly improved by a moodily romantic coda. The throwback setting is evocative even if it seems designed only to allow the proceedings to carry on without the glare of social media (and for Brubaker to drop in tips of the hat to classic punk bands like the Descendants). Though not quite up to the duo's usual panache, this is still savvy enough to be a sure thing for fans of suburban neo-noir.
