![]() ![]() ![]() Today, I want to look at the ways that Brubaker and Phillips address these issues in Pulp. While Criminal: The Last of the Innocent focuses on nostalgia, and its fleeting nature, Pulp focuses on the ways that the historical narrative gets reinvented, morphing into something more palatable for the prevailing narrative, in this case the narrative of the West and of World War II. Recently, I picked up their latest release, Pulp, and as I read Pulp some of the same themes surrounding the ways that we think about the past arose. The ways that Brubaker and Phillips use the medium of comics to examine the ways that nostalgia influences the ways that we perceive the world really stood out to me as I read through the series. A few years ago I came across Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal: The Last of the Innocent. ![]()
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