Book: The Fade Out volume #1 (issues #1-4) by Ed Brubaker with illustrations by Sean Phillips with color by Elizabeth Breitweiser
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Publisher: Image Comics
Description:
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!
Rating: 1 star (Did Not Finish)
Review:
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with this story, it's just really boring and slow moving with unremarkable characters. I feel like with most noir stories unless it's something unique then it feels like once you've read one noir story you've read them all.
This story centers around the death of actress Valeria Sommers, although it was ruled a suicide by the police, screenwriter Charlie Parish knows it was murder. He also believes the movie studio covered it up.
I was too bored with this story to continue and had no desire to see if Charlie found any clues to who may have killed the actress and who may have covered it up. The best thing about this was the artwork, it had that perfect gritty noir feel to it.
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