![]() ![]() A multigenerational tale, where the crimes of a band of thieves and their teenage children collide in the summer of 1988. ![]() It’s kind of like, what if you intended to die young in a blaze of glory, but somehow you didn’t? That’s what Pulp is about.”īy comparison, Brubaker continued, Cruel Summer is “the book that Sean Phillips and I have been building towards since we started Criminal. “It started as an idea for a Western graphic novel, but as I worked on it, it morphed into something else - a story of an old Wild West outlaw at the end of his life, in Depression-era NYC, churning out pulp story versions of his old crimes, as the world rushes toward World War Two. “ Pulp is different than a lot of what we’ve done before,” Brubaker explained in an exclusive statement to The Hollywood Reporter. ![]() ![]() Collecting a storyline from the Criminal series, it’s another period piece - this time taking place in 1988 - as one career criminal prepares for the job of his life, even as he worries that his son is going to follow in his footsteps. Cruel Summer, meanwhile, follows last year’s Bad Weekend as a reworking of previously published material into a stand-alone graphic novel. ![]()
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