10 Best Ed Brubaker Comics Fans Must Read

8. Incognito

The Fade Out
Icon Comics

Incognito might be the most Brubaker-and-Phillips-y comic that Brubaker and Phillips have ever created. It was released under Marvel’s Icon imprint for creator-owned ventures. This was a way for Marvel to hang on to its creators and let them work on projects outside of the Marvel universe without losing them to Image Comics and the freedom they offered.

This 2008 series takes Brubaker and Phillips’ trademark noir and heaps a big dollop of pulp on top of it.

Incognito is set in a world where old fashioned pulp heroes exist and are the superheroes of their universe. The characters of Professor Zeppelin and Lazarus are clearly based on Doc Savage and The Shadow respectively. The whole thing is a love letter to pulp fiction while also standing alone as a fantastic piece of work in its own right.

Where Sleeper told the tale of a super-powered spy trapped in the supervillain underworld with no links back to the life he knew before, Incognito askes the same question for the opposite side – what happens when a supervillain becomes the good guy?

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Jonathan was formerly an editor at Titan Comics where he was the line editor on their Statix Press imprint and the editor on Doctor Who and Tank Girl among other titles. He has written for various anthology comics including SelfMadeHero’s The Corbyn Comic.