Brubaker And Phillips’ Lovecraftian Noir Mystery To Be Collected In Compendium Format By Image Comics

by Olly MacNamee

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips HP Lovecraftian inspired mystery noir story series, Fatale, by multiple Eisner Award-winning duo Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips will be collected – all 24 issues – in the upcoming Fatale Compendium.

“Fatale darkly blends American crime noir with unnamed Lovecraftian horrors. Readers jump from 1950s San Francisco—where crooked cops hide deeper evils—to mid-’70s Los Angeles—where burnt-out actors and ex-cult groupies are caught in a web around a Satanic snuff film—then back through the ages of time. At the center of it all is the mysterious Josephine—a curse woman with a hypnotic, supernatural power to die or kill for.

First released in 2012, here’s what Brubaker said about this new collected edition:

“Fatale was our first book at Image, and I always wished we had it in a single volume edition, because it really is meant to be read as one big epic story,” said Brubaker. “The puzzle pieces of this horror-noir tale are designed to resonate off each other and make earlier scenes have more impact, so this book is actually my ideal way for our readers to discover Fatale again.”