Brubaker has followed that success with notable writing gigs (Westworld among them) and, with Nicolas Winding Refn, he co-created Amazon’s Too Old to Die Young.Ĭoming up fast on the horizon for Brubaker & Phillips is Bad Weekend, which delves into the sordid history and self-destructive lore of the comic book industry.

The haunting and emotional epic had elements of Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne novels and The Manchurian Candidate, and much of it was kept intact when Marvel Studios imported it to the big screen in Captain America:The Winter Soldier and other films.Īs a result, Winter Soldier is the biggest new character addition to the Marvel Comics pantheon in this century and also the biggest since Deadpool in 1991. In 2005, Brubaker deftly reengineered decades of Marvel mythology to revive Captain America’s long-dead sidekick, Bucky Barnes, with a new persona: the Winter Soldier. Our first issue is even told from the POV of a private eye, who might actually be a good guy, which is a first.”Įven the good guys go bad in a big way in a Brubaker universe, at least that was the case the writer engineered the most notable Marvel Comics character debut in decades. “Every issue in this epic story is told from a different character’s POV, and the reader will really have to do some work to fill in the gaps between their versions of events. “It’s the biggest and most ambitious Criminal story we’ve ever done,” Brubaker said. “Cruel Summer” is the story of the summer of 1988, the final season in the life of Teeg Lawless, but the tale it tells goes beyond his death. It’s just been a ghost haunting the series, as Teeg Lawless has become one of the most popular characters in the comic.” Before we even met Teeg, we knew that he had died when his son was a teenager, but other than the identity of his killer, we have never told the rest of that story. “And one of the big events in many of these characters’ pasts, which has been referenced since the very first Criminal story, was the death of Teeg Lawless. “ Criminal tells the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past,” Brubaker explained. The result: Criminal stories inform each other in sneaky ways, the same way its characters inform on each other. The stand-alone story arcs about the underworld link together like the suspect photos tacked on an FBI evidence board. Instead of chronicling a central, linear story, Criminal has more of a mosaic approach.

'Criminal' Series Based On Ed Brubaker's Comic Books In Works At Amazon Studios

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