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* CIAEvilFBIGood: Subverted. [[spoiler:Even though the CIA was running the drug operation, they ''didn't'' kill Rainy. The CIA is dirty, but, then again, so is everyone.]]
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''Reckless'' is a 2020 graphic novel published by Creator/ImageComics. Written by Creator/EdBrubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips (who previously did ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' and ''ComicBook/KillOrBeKilled''), it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned [[HardboiledDetective hardboiled detective/repo man]]. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Your trouble is his business, for a price.
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''Reckless'' is a 2020 graphic novel published by Creator/ImageComics. Written by Creator/EdBrubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips (who previously did ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' and ''ComicBook/KillOrBeKilled''), Creator/SeanPhillips, it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned [[HardboiledDetective hardboiled detective/repo man]]. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Your trouble is his business, for a price.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Anna has close-cut purple hair.
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The second graphic novel, ''Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book'', will be published in April 2021.
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The second graphic novel, ''Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book'', will be was published in April 2021.
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->"So...there's like this ''number'' that you call...like 1-800-something...and you leave a ''message'' on the machine...about what kind of ''trouble'' you're in. Stuff that you can't go to the cops for...for ''whatever'' reason. And if you got a good enough ''story'', then there's this guy that shows up...and he solves your ''problem'' for you."
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->"So... there's like this ''number'' that you call...call... like 1-800-something...1-800-something... and you leave a ''message'' on the machine...machine... about what kind of ''trouble'' you're in. Stuff that you can't go to the cops for... for ''whatever'' reason. And if you got a good enough ''story'', then there's this guy that shows up... and he solves your ''problem'' for you."
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: After he joined the FBI, they tasked him with surveying student protestors and such, until he could infiltrate an actual group of radicals. The goal was to connect them to the Black Panthers, but it all ended up going wrong.
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* BombThrowingAnarchists: After he Ethan joined the FBI, they tasked him with surveying student protestors and such, until he could infiltrate an actual group of radicals. The goal was to connect them to the Black Panthers, but it all ended up going wrong.
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* HardboiledDetective: Even though he's not technically a detective, Ethan Reckless still comes off as this. Even his habits of surfer and getting stone don't stop him being being hardboiled.
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* HardboiledDetective: Even though he's not technically a detective, Ethan Reckless still comes off as this. Even his habits of surfer surfing and getting stone stoned don't stop him being being hardboiled.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Ethan gets stabbed in the arm by Wilder, but keeps going, even driving all the way back to LA with the wound only wrapped in a bandage. Subverted, however, because he then has to spend ''several days'' in the hospital due to this wound.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Ethan gets stabbed in the arm by Wilder, but keeps going, even driving all the way back to LA L.A. with the wound only wrapped in a bandage. Subverted, however, because he then has to spend ''several days'' in the hospital due to this wound.
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* NoodleIncident: How Anna became Ethan's assistant. Ethan only says that it's a long story.
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* ShoutOut: Ethan's movie theater is showing ''Film/NightOfTheHunter'' when he gets the message from Rainy.
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* ShoutOut: Ethan's movie theater is showing ''Film/NightOfTheHunter'' ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' when he gets the message from Rainy.
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''Reckless'' is a 2020 graphic novel published by Creator/ImageComics. Written by Creator/EdBrubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips (who previously did ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}, ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' and ''ComicBook/KillOrBeKilled''), it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned [[HardboiledDetective hardboiled detective/repo man]]. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Your trouble is his business, for a price.
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''Reckless'' is a 2020 graphic novel published by Creator/ImageComics. Written by Creator/EdBrubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips (who previously did ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}, ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' and ''ComicBook/KillOrBeKilled''), it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned [[HardboiledDetective hardboiled detective/repo man]]. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Your trouble is his business, for a price.
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* BidBad: Wilder. [[spoiler:But not really -- Rainy was just setting up both him and Ethan to die by each other's hands.]]
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* BidBad: BigBad: Wilder. [[spoiler:But not really -- Rainy was just setting up both him and Ethan to die by each other's hands.]]
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->"So...there's like this ''number'' that you call...like 1-800-something...and you leave a ''message'' on the machine...about what kind of ''trouble'' you're in. Stuff that you can't go to the cops for...for ''whatever'' reason. And if you got a good enough ''story'', then there's this guy that shows up...and he solves your ''problem'' for you."
''Reckless'' is a 2020 graphic novel published by Creator/ImageComics. Written by Creator/EdBrubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips (who previously did ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}, ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' and ''ComicBook/KillOrBeKilled''), it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned [[HardboiledDetective hardboiled detective/repo man]]. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Your trouble is his business, for a price.
In Los Angeles, 1981, Ethan Reckless is a part-time private eye[=/=]repo man working out of a rundown movie theater. His assistant, the purple-haired punk Anna, operates his 1-800 number where people who need him call, but he's picky about the jobs he takes.
And then he gets a message from a former flame, Rainy. The women he was in love with back during his [[BombThrowingAnarchists radical underground]] days. The time when the group he was a part of died due to a bomb going off, causing blank spots in his memory and a distant feeling in his head. The worst part of it, however, is that Ethan was an undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated the group, tasked with bringing down the leader, Rainy's brother.
But that was years ago and now Rainy needs help. Money that she helped steal during a bank robbery years ago has gone missing and she needs Ethan to retrieve it. But things aren't always as they seem and this job will lead Ethan into even more dangerous situations than he knows.
The second graphic novel, ''Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book'', will be published in April 2021.
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!Tropes in ''Reckless'':
* TheEighties: The first book takes place in 1981.
* TheAntiNihilist: After Ethan returned to the FBI, he was put on a desk job reading through reports written by scientists about global warming and upcoming environmental disasters and he realized that everyone was just waiting for the end of the world. So he decided if the world was going to end, he was going to help people in the meantime.
* BeachKiss: Ethan keeps flashing back to when he did this with Rainy and he wants to remember how he felt about her back then, but he can't.
* BidBad: Wilder. [[spoiler:But not really -- Rainy was just setting up both him and Ethan to die by each other's hands.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Wilder is dead and his drug-running operation is done, but the CIA were the ones funding him and they got away with it. And Rainy wasn't killed by him, but rather had her brother make a bomb to kill herself with, because she had terminal cancer and wanted to get revenge on the men in her life who had used her.]]
* BombThrowingAnarchists: After he joined the FBI, they tasked him with surveying student protestors and such, until he could infiltrate an actual group of radicals. The goal was to connect them to the Black Panthers, but it all ended up going wrong.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: Subverted. [[spoiler:Even though the CIA was running the drug operation, they ''didn't'' kill Rainy. The CIA is dirty, but, then again, so is everyone.]]
* FilmNoir: It's neo-noir set in Los Angeles in the early '80s.
* HardboiledDetective: Even though he's not technically a detective, Ethan Reckless still comes off as this. Even his habits of surfer and getting stone don't stop him being being hardboiled.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Ethan gets stabbed in the arm by Wilder, but keeps going, even driving all the way back to LA with the wound only wrapped in a bandage. Subverted, however, because he then has to spend ''several days'' in the hospital due to this wound.
* PornStache: Wilder definitely has one of these.
* ShoutOut: Ethan's movie theater is showing ''Film/NightOfTheHunter'' when he gets the message from Rainy.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Ethan has blank spots in his memory due to the bomb going off. [[spoiler:He doesn't even remember that he told Rainy he was an FBI agent or that he had tried to arrest her brother before the explosion.]]
* UndercoverCopReveal: Ethan was an undercover FBI agent when he met and fell for Rainy. [[spoiler:It turns out that he told her this, but the explosion made him forget.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Anna has close-cut purple hair.
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->"So...there's like this ''number'' that you call...like 1-800-something...and you leave a ''message'' on the machine...about what kind of ''trouble'' you're in. Stuff that you can't go to the cops for...for ''whatever'' reason. And if you got a good enough ''story'', then there's this guy that shows up...and he solves your ''problem'' for you."
''Reckless'' is a 2020 graphic novel published by Creator/ImageComics. Written by Creator/EdBrubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips (who previously did ''ComicBook/{{Criminal}}, ''ComicBook/{{Fatale}}'' and ''ComicBook/KillOrBeKilled''), it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned [[HardboiledDetective hardboiled detective/repo man]]. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Your trouble is his business, for a price.
In Los Angeles, 1981, Ethan Reckless is a part-time private eye[=/=]repo man working out of a rundown movie theater. His assistant, the purple-haired punk Anna, operates his 1-800 number where people who need him call, but he's picky about the jobs he takes.
And then he gets a message from a former flame, Rainy. The women he was in love with back during his [[BombThrowingAnarchists radical underground]] days. The time when the group he was a part of died due to a bomb going off, causing blank spots in his memory and a distant feeling in his head. The worst part of it, however, is that Ethan was an undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated the group, tasked with bringing down the leader, Rainy's brother.
But that was years ago and now Rainy needs help. Money that she helped steal during a bank robbery years ago has gone missing and she needs Ethan to retrieve it. But things aren't always as they seem and this job will lead Ethan into even more dangerous situations than he knows.
The second graphic novel, ''Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book'', will be published in April 2021.
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!Tropes in ''Reckless'':
* TheEighties: The first book takes place in 1981.
* TheAntiNihilist: After Ethan returned to the FBI, he was put on a desk job reading through reports written by scientists about global warming and upcoming environmental disasters and he realized that everyone was just waiting for the end of the world. So he decided if the world was going to end, he was going to help people in the meantime.
* BeachKiss: Ethan keeps flashing back to when he did this with Rainy and he wants to remember how he felt about her back then, but he can't.
* BidBad: Wilder. [[spoiler:But not really -- Rainy was just setting up both him and Ethan to die by each other's hands.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Wilder is dead and his drug-running operation is done, but the CIA were the ones funding him and they got away with it. And Rainy wasn't killed by him, but rather had her brother make a bomb to kill herself with, because she had terminal cancer and wanted to get revenge on the men in her life who had used her.]]
* BombThrowingAnarchists: After he joined the FBI, they tasked him with surveying student protestors and such, until he could infiltrate an actual group of radicals. The goal was to connect them to the Black Panthers, but it all ended up going wrong.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: Subverted. [[spoiler:Even though the CIA was running the drug operation, they ''didn't'' kill Rainy. The CIA is dirty, but, then again, so is everyone.]]
* FilmNoir: It's neo-noir set in Los Angeles in the early '80s.
* HardboiledDetective: Even though he's not technically a detective, Ethan Reckless still comes off as this. Even his habits of surfer and getting stone don't stop him being being hardboiled.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Ethan gets stabbed in the arm by Wilder, but keeps going, even driving all the way back to LA with the wound only wrapped in a bandage. Subverted, however, because he then has to spend ''several days'' in the hospital due to this wound.
* PornStache: Wilder definitely has one of these.
* ShoutOut: Ethan's movie theater is showing ''Film/NightOfTheHunter'' when he gets the message from Rainy.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Ethan has blank spots in his memory due to the bomb going off. [[spoiler:He doesn't even remember that he told Rainy he was an FBI agent or that he had tried to arrest her brother before the explosion.]]
* UndercoverCopReveal: Ethan was an undercover FBI agent when he met and fell for Rainy. [[spoiler:It turns out that he told her this, but the explosion made him forget.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Anna has close-cut purple hair.
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