At the same time, Anna’s mother, Sharon is described as constantly looking for the same validation in relationship after relationship, equally aimless but without accountability to her child.Īnna is told from a childhood friend that “all most people want is to get back the things they’ve lost” and for Anna, that seems to be the expectation of a stable life, something explored heavily in the previous Reckless book. Anna fantasizes about what Evilina might be like as her mother, imagining a world where her childhood aimlessness was less a bug of a poor parent, and more a feature, a way to justify and validate the life she already lived. In the process, Anna becomes involved in the life of her estranged mother and we start to unpack the emotional consequences of a child who largely raised herself, and the expectations we have for our parents. The book reflects Anna in the most fitting ways, and the results are a classic, efficient and enjoyable adventure from comics’ most reliable team.Įthan Reckless is out of town on a case, and this time Anna helps solve the mystery of a haunted house for her childhood hero, Evilina.
Sean and Jacob Phillips once again create a timeless feel to match Brubaker’s writing, and the result is a slightly different experience than we’ve come to expect.
Brubaker centers Anna, our favorite sidekick, as she tries to solve the mystery of a haunted house and in the process we experience a strong story about taking control of your life, the expectations we have for the people around us, and the bonds we form in our mutually disastrous lives. The Ghost in You - the fourth Reckless book by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips - is largely about everything that can possibly go wrong going wrong all at once. No one feels like an actively ruinous force, they just feel like another person caught up in their own list of things to deal with, perhaps at a different pace than you. While not the best way to deal with the anxiety of expectations, you do remarkably start to find some joy and kinship with the disasters around you. That thing didn’t go wrong, it's just another one off the list. The idea was that life is a disaster waiting to happen, but the more of it you can anticipate by checking it off a list, the less devastating it feels. I could have forgotten my books, gotten into a fight, failed a class, lost my glasses, and on and on and on. By Steve Baxi - When I was young, I used to start every school year by making a list of every possible bad thing that could happen.
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