Sleeper: Out in the Cold
Ed Brubaker, Author, Sean Phillips, Illustrator . WildStorm/DC Comics $17.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0115-9
Holden Carver is a double agent, working in deep cover among some very bad people. He's become more and more morally compromised in his work as the body count rises, and he wants to come in from the cold—but the only person who can bring him in is in a coma. Carver is also a superhero, and the bad guys he's working among are supervillains. That's the ingenious premise of the smart, cool and cruelly funny Sleeper series, whose first story line is collected here. Brubaker's densely plotted writing recalls his early
Reviewed on: 02/02/2004
Release date: 01/01/2004
Genre: Fiction