It’s also a heartbreaking reveal, so plan your reading accordingly. The shift to the near present also reveals a key detail that alters the experience of reading both this volume and the previous, making it essential to read them back to back.
He knows Rachel will never return to her old life now and accepts The volume then extends further than any other into the future, reaching 2004 before Ethan reunites with Rachel and puts the retribution to rest. That quest comes short along with the budding connection between Ethan and Rachel. Ethan’s case deals with a wife who’s gone missing right after the massive earthquakes that hit the city but turn out to be the woman’s quest for revenge.Īs Ethan switches from locating Rachel to assisting in her ruthless killing of the men that abused her as a child. The plots are unrelated but run concurrently for a majority of both graphic novels, with Ethan taking a case in San Francisco while Anna stays in L.A. It’s no surprise that a series like Reckless makes that realization, and uses it to tell a thematically rich, character-driven tale of vengeance and connection.įollow Me Down – written by Ed Brubaker, with art and letters by Sean Phillips and colors by Jacob Phillips – serves as both a sequel and companion to the last volume, The Ghost in You. It will also figure out a way to harness it to transcend the original notion of retribution. A good tale of revenge, whether it sees the actual retribution enacted, knows what that underlying emotion is. It’s the reactionary emotion to a loss that fuels the quest for a character to have something made right.Īlmost always though, there’s either a deeper need underneath the vengeance, usually coming to odds with the reactive emotions. It’s why so many protagonists and antagonists alike have their primary want in some form of vengeance or revenge. It’s a base motivator for both crime and justice, two sides of the same coin that drive characters to act in ways that naturally boost emotion.
Vengeance is a powerful force in fiction, more so when dealing with crime fiction.
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