It is also worth reading this graphic novel in our present circumstances. While these readings of the biblical text are contentious, Pulp’s exploration of how events may be read different ways over time is a worthwhile one. Max’s painful memories undergo something that may be considered the development of legend, a process that some scholars argue took place in the biblical accounts of Jesus’ birth. Pulp’s story manages to draw nicely on themes like ageing and the way that someone’s lived experiences can be presented in different ways. The colour work is especially pleasing, with scenes that take Max’s real-life events and metaphorise them with a filter that makes them resemble an old pulp comic. Much like Brubaker and Phillips’ prior works, Pulp stands out for having a great marriage between the artwork and prose, with the two working together seamlessly. A chance encounter with one of the Pinkerton agents that used to hunt him down puts him in contact with a much bigger job: robbing a group of American Nazis while a rally takes place a few blocks over at Madison Square Garden. With the need to make some money, quickly, Max considers returning to crime.
What his editor does not know is that Max largely writes exaggerated versions of his own real-life experiences from his prior life as an outlaw. In the cut-throat emerging comic book industry, he can no longer command the kind of fee that he needs to keep his head above water.
Taking place in 1939, Pulp tells the story of Max Winter, a somewhat washed up writer who sells his stories as comic books to diminishing returns. Pulp is the duo’s latest in this line, and a story that uses a disturbing but largely forgotten episode from history as its inspiration. While the duo may be best known for working together on the anthology comic series Criminal, their partnership has also been responsible for some great one-off graphic novels such as My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies. Review: Pulp by Ed Brubaker and Sean PhillipsĮd Brubaker and Sean Phillips have long yielded success in generating noir-style crime stories that lean heavily into real-world events.
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