Just to tread lightly back on the territory of another Hollywood Brubaker-Phillips classic, The Fade-Out, but the Lamour Mansion was once owned by a movie star, whose wife was killed there, and who himself died soon after. Anna was a fan of Evillina on tv, so duh, she takes the case, also knowing the apparent curse of murders in the mansion which is in the Hollywood Hills. So Lorna Valentine, the former Evillina, walks into the El Ricardo (the B movie theater) and Ethan is away on another case we’ll learn about in volume 5, so Anna takes the case: Lorna wants to know if her new house, the Lamour Mansion, is haunted. But the story takes place in 1989, in a vintage movie theater, so there are at least two or three layers of nostalgia going on here. The story opens with Anna shot and passing out, last recalling a pulpy fifties movie, Naked Kiss, featuring one of the Scream Queens, which is your light-hearted key to this issue: Fun sixties and seventies suspense stories. Oh, for these guys it may be a three star book, maybe, an interlude with Anna backstory to make her seem more like a full partner (up from mere sidekick) to Ethan Reckless, but it is still much better than most comics work out there. Watson) Anna’s taking on her own independent tec work, I still loved it. The Ghost in You is Reckless #4 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, and while it seems like a light diversion from the central Reckless direction, focusing as it does on (buddy, assistant, Dr.
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