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Monk
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper  Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:08 pm |
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I just read series 1 and 2 of this, and it's excellent. Easily as good as Criminal, and maybe even a bit better. If they ever come out with an Omnibus or Absolute for this series I will buy the hell out of it. Here's the synopsis:
Masterfully combining the genres of crime stories and superheroes, SLEEPER provides a dark, humanizing exploration of the criminal world. As an undercover agent in a complex super-villain organization, Holden Carver has become caught in a web of moral uncertainty. After being forced to kill someone to preserve his cover, the self-loathing operative looks to be pulled out of his assignment, but the only man who knows he is really a secret agent is in a coma. Now with the world believing him a traitor to his country and his cover about to be blown, Carver must find a way to survive his mission and regain his identity. SUGGESTED FOR MATURE READERS.
And, yes, this is the very good Brubaker.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:08 pm |
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I'm putting this one near the head of the line. Incognito has made me so anxious that I need a substitute to tide me over.
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:56 pm |
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Linda
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:08 pm |
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(Unless it's the bad Brubaker.)
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:09 pm |
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Linda
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:11 pm |
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Ron Zoso
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:26 pm |
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Is it Friday yet?
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All this talk is going to make me pull out the trades and reread it.
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John V
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:07 pm |
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This series made me a Brubaker fan for life...what an amazing story..i loved the secret origin sequences...the origin of Genocide Jones is a classic..what an emotional punch..pure brilliance.
Bru deserves all the success he is getting these days.
(I also recommend the prequel mini POINT BLANK for Sleeper fans).
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:41 pm |
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I went to a LCS today and picked up Seasons 1 and 2 of this today, as well as the "prelude to Sleeper", Point Blank. Looks to be good!
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:58 pm |
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Let us know what you think Hanzo - loved this series.
The current Criminal arc is also amazing...as is the new Captain American and Bucky (issue 620 with art by Chris Samnee - Bucky has truly become Bru's character..he adds so much pathos and emotion to the character in this one issue where we learn about his early years). Bru is on a roll these days.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:48 pm |
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I loved Sleeper. It was a lot like Incognito, but that's a good thing in my book.
Loving Criminal right now.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:10 am |
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I was pretty underwhelmed by Incognito. My Bru love is pretty much all from his amazing Captain America work. I love the sci fi espionage vibe the whole thing puts off and Sleeper sounded like the same kinda deal.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:26 am |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: I was pretty underwhelmed by Incognito. My Bru love is pretty much all from his amazing Captain America work. I love the sci fi espionage vibe the whole thing puts off and Sleeper sounded like the same kinda deal. It's very similar to Incognito, to me. But it's more espionagey.
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:32 am |
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Well, I hated the lead character of Incognito and am lukewarm to crime comics, so I'm hoping the spy stuff will appeal to me.
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Monk
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:32 am |
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Steve
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:38 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Thinking about sampling like $10 worth of indie #1s on the iPad, and that's one of 'em.
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:53 am |
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:02 pm |
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That website's pretty uninformative.
What's the series' premise?
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:05 pm |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: That website's pretty uninformative.
What's the series' premise? The main character is Jake Ellis. And he's mysterious. As the series unfolds, we find out more and more about what he is up to, and why.
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:05 pm |
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:19 pm |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: Pass. I know. That's why I never had the desire to even pick it up.
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Post subject: Brubaker/Phillips - Sleeper Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:40 pm |
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Part of the twist of the first issue is what the premise actually is. I'll spell it out in spoiler tags. Jon Moore is a former secret agent operating in a murky underworld, trying to stay alive and trying to find out what happened to him and why. He's helped along the way by Jake Ellis, a character only he can see and hear, but who seems to know things that Moore doesn't, and can't, know about what's happening around him (for example, when looking for an escape route, Ellis will warn Moore that there are three guards around the corner, but that the first one has a trick knee, or that the kitchen he's running through has an exit around the corner to the right). Moore believes that Ellis is simply a part of his subconscious mind that's been heightened by experiments carried out on him by an enemy government, but there are hints that Ellis might actually be real. Also, Moore thinks that Ellis is strictly meant to keep him alive, but Ellis seems to be guiding Moore to find out more about what's really going on. That's really just the set-up, though. What makes the book great is the execution by Edmonson and Zonjic.
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