This is our next project, a series of graphic novels, each one a fully self-contained story, and we're releasing three of them over the next year. The books are much longer than our recent OGNs - the first book in the series is 144 pages, actually, so twice as long as PULP and JUNKIES.

RECKLESS launches in mid-December in hardback from Image, and book 2 is scheduled for April 2021. And I repeat, each of these books is a completely standalone graphic novel. There is no "to be continued" at the end of the book.

Here is what else you need to know:

Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for a price.

A former student radical, with the scars to prove it, Ethan is one part repo man, one part private eye, and one part wrecking ball. But when a fugitive from his Weather Underground days reaches out for help, Ethan will have to face the only thing he really fears… his own past.

It’s sex, drugs, and murder in early ‘80s Los Angeles, as Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips launch their first graphic novel series with an electrifying new take on the paperback pulp hero.

Strangely, the 'series character' genre, the pulp paperback hero, has never been a big thing in comics - other than Darwyn Cooke's PARKER books, which adapted paperbacks from the 60s. And when rereading those recently, it hit me that there was nothing else like them on the market anymore, character-focused pulp graphic novels.

There have certainly been thriller and mystery comics, and recurring detective characters - my friend Greg Rucka's STUMPTOWN (now seen on TV) is a great example of how to serialize a private eye story then put it out as a book. But one of the things I loved most about those PARKER books was that they were graphic novels, there was no other way to buy them - they came out just like the novels they were based on did. Yet somehow, in a world where graphic novels are becoming more and more common, no one in the US comics market (that I know of at least) has taken a swing at an original book series like that.

So we decided to... And just to be crazy, we're putting three of them out in one year, to really put the series on the map.

And for those already asking, this series will be released in hardback, the same size as our recent OGNs, but with a lot more pages.

I'll have more news and previews as we get closer to release, but we are deep into this book already, and I've got outlines for at least five more of them.

“But I am told that these layoffs will have an immediate effect on the publication of DC Comics monthly titles, and I am to expect a rapid reduction of titles. If you thought DC Comics published an unhealthy percentage of Batman books, you ain't seen nothing yet. The Batbooks, most of the Justice League books and some of the Superman books will stay safe, as will the digital line, the original graphic novel line. But a lot of comics will have to disappear as there simply aren't enough people to work on them."