Take a look at the movie magazine variant cover and 5 preview pages below. Their series Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out and. The Fade Out #1 is available in all good comic book stores and digitally from August 20th. Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have spent 15 years creating a massive body of original work highly sought after for adaptation. For those who are looking for a great place to jump on with this acclaimed creative team this series is a great place to start. If you enjoy your crime stories hard-boiled and full of noir then The Fade Out is a series you should enjoy. Additionally, each issue of this series will include essays and articles that are exclusive to the single issues.

With 40 pages of story at $3.50, there is extra incentive for you to give this series a try. The Fade Out #1 will also be great value with this début issue being twice the regular size. Based on their track record, Image Comics has taken advantage of this by signing them to a five year exclusivity deal, which obviously shows that the publisher holds them in very high regard. As a result they have created critically acclaimed series such as Sleeper, Criminal, Incognito and most recently Fatale. Over the past decade Brubaker and Phillips have become a superstar partnership that gels harmoniously together in way that few creators can achieve. Throughout this series all of these elements will entwine into an gritty epic crime narrative. The Fade Out will explore all the gritty and undesirable side of Hollywood of the era, from the corruption to the xenophobia. At the same time there has been a murder of a young up-and-coming-actress, attached to a movie stuck in endless reshoots. Set in Hollywood in 1948, the series follows a a screenwriter who is haunted by the war and a horrible secret that he holds.

Sean phillips ed brubaker