

Hardboiled Detective: Even though he's not technically a detective, Ethan Reckless still comes off as this.Film Noir: It's neo-noir set in Los Angeles in the early '80s.The goal was to connect them to the Black Panthers, but it all ended up going wrong. Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: After Ethan joined the FBI, they tasked him with surveying student protestors and such, until he could infiltrate an actual group of radicals.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. Bittersweet Ending: Wilder is dead and his drug-running operation is done, but the CIA were the ones funding him and they got away with it.But not really - Rainy was just setting up both him and Ethan to die by each other's hands.


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 women he was in love with back during his radical underground days.

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.Īnd then he gets a message from a former flame, Rainy. In Los Angeles, 1981, Ethan Reckless is a part-time private eye/repo man working out of a rundown movie theater. Your trouble is his business, for a price. If you have the money and a good story, Reckless will find whatever or whomever you need found. Written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips, it is the first in a series of graphic novels starring Ethan Reckless, a former undercover FBI Agent-turned surfer-turned hardboiled detective/repo man. Reckless is a 2020 graphic novel published by Image Comics. And if you got a good enough story, then there's this guy that shows up.
