Complete FATALE by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Find out about each collection in the FATALE occult noir comic book series.
“Fatale is filled with subtle horrors and overt atrocities that will leave the reader feverishly turning the pages.”—Den of Geeks
Fatale is a supernatural noir comic book created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. The series revolves around femme fatale Josephine, an immortal who has survived from the 1930s to the modern day unaged—and also can hypnotize men into being infatuated with her. Meanwhile, she is threatened by a violent cult that worships cosmic Lovecraftian beings.
Below, find out more about the series from co-creator Ed Brubaker. We also have info about each collection in the series.
Brubaker says he had been wanting to write something with horror elements for a while—but write it in a way that still felt like him, as opposed to trying to write stories in the style of somebody like Neil Gaiman.
“I got to thinking about immortality and curses, and noir fiction archetypes…and it all just kind of fell into place. This mix of Lovecraftian and Hammer horror with noir and having this epic scope that allows real history to be part of it all. It's probably the most ambitious project me and Sean have ever tackled.” (Interview with Daily Dead)
Reviews of Fatale:
“How does one combine classic crime noir, period drama, and Lovecraftian terror into an ongoing comic that not only scares, it fascinates? Read Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Fatale to find out. For years, Brubaker and Phillips crafted some of the greatest crime fiction in comics with their seminal Criminal, but in Fatale, the creative duo proved they can do high octane horror with the same panache they did cops and robbers….Fatale is a meditation on obsession and madness that will chill even the most stolid reader to the bone, and it’s filled with subtle horrors and overt atrocities that will leave the reader feverishly turning the pages.”
—Den of Geeks“Fatale also explores the problematic aspects of the Cthulu Mythos—specifically, creator H.P. Lovecraft’s weird hang-ups over women—which elevates it above other, more superficial additions to the Lovecraft canon.”
—The Pop Culture Studio
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About Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker is one of the most acclaimed writers in comics, winning five best writer Eisner and Harvey Awards. His bestselling work with Sean Phillips on FATALE, CRIMINAL, INCOGNITO, and THE FADE OUT has been translated around the world to great acclaim. Marvel’s movies featuring his co-creation, The Winter Soldier, have all been international blockbusters. His comics writing has also included Batman, Catwoman, The Authority, Captain America, Daredevil and X-Men.
Ed also works in film and television, including HBO’s series Westworld and the Amazon series Too Old to Die Young.
About Sean Phillips
Drawing comics professionally since the age of 15, Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist best known for his collaborations with Ed Brubaker on comics including Fatale, Sleeper, Incognito, the Criminal series of comics, The Fade Out, and Kill or Be Killed.
The Eisner Award-winning Phillips has worked for all the major publishers, including drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. He has also worked on the DC Comics series WildC.A.T.s and Hellblazer.
Secrets, lies, horror, lust and monsters from the time before time all collide in FATALE: DEATH CHASES ME. In present day, a man meets a woman who he becomes instantly obsessed with, and in the 1950s, this same woman destroys the lives of all those who cross her path, on a quest for... what? ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS best-selling series will leave you craving more! Collects FATALE #1-5!
In 1970s Los Angeles, Josephine can’t hide from the forces of Hollywood, Satanic Cults and creepy 8mm films collected by wealthy deviants. And when a struggling actor and his wounded friend cross her path, all hell will break loose, leaving ripples that echo all the way to modern time, where Nicolas Lash falls deeper into Josephine’s spell. Collects FATALE # 6-10.
The third arc of the hit series hits stands the same day as the next one begins! From the dark days of the depression, to the middle ages and the old west, these tales of horror and myth and the mystery of the Femme Fatale reveal secrets even our heroine doesn’t know about yet. Bold and experimental, this is pulp noir horror at it’s finest. Collects FATALE #11-14.
Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, and ritual killers all collide in the strangest and most exciting volume of FATALE yet. A strange woman with no memory stumbles into the lives of a struggling grunge band in mid-’90s Seattle—is she their muse? Will she save them from “one-hit wonder” status? Or will she be something much worse, especially since there’s a psycho killer on her trail? Collects FATALE #15-19.
The final book in ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS’s best-selling horror-noir epic. The secrets of the immortal Femme Fatale and her adversary come to light before their final explosive confrontation. Collects FATALE #20-24.
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