The graphic novel points at many interesting ideas, the way history is whitewashed through popular culture, how the comics market inherited its morally bankrupt business model from the pulp magazines, America’s oft-ignored embrace of the Nazi party etc. Oh, for sure, they end things well enough on the story level, all the plot threads are tied satisfactorily enough, every character gets its due but on the level beyond sheer plotting Pulp remains unsatisfying. Sadly, it also shares their one major weakness: they don’t know how to end things. Despite the new-ish format, a one shot graphic novel that is not tied to their previous Criminal stories, it has a lot of the same virtues of their older comics: rock-solid storytelling, keen grasp of genre limitations (and how to break them) and interest in ideas that go beyond the boundaries of the plot. Pulp, the latest collaboration between Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (with coloring by Jacob Phillips, who only gets better with each project), is a rather typical work for the pair.
Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips
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