SERIES CONCLUSION
It all ends here! The dramatic wrap-up to the mystery and to Brubaker and Phillips best-selling and most ambitious project yet!
Some people will be startled by the conclusion of "The Fade Out" #12, if only because there is no gentle, proverbial fade out as it all quietly winds down. Here, we get a sudden jump to black as it concludes, leaving us with just our thoughts -- and that's the way it should be. It's been one hell of a ride and, as always, I know I'll be there for whatever Brubaker and Phillips do next. I'm the rest of "The Fade Out's" readers will, as well. Read Full Review
Like Criminal, Sleeper and Fatale before it, The Fade Out deals with the things we give up in a desire to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. More than any of those other stories though, The Fade Out uses neo-noir genre conventions and a tainted, achingly realistic portrait of Hollywood to show how those same systems can trap and consume even the seemingly untouchable. Read Full Review
I don't have anything else to say about The Fade Out. It's an excellent comic, and it had an excellent ending. The highest praise I can give: the minute I finished the last page, I wanted to dig the first issue out of my longboxes and read the whole story again in a sitting. Read Full Review
Regardless, The Fade Out #12 fulfills Brubaker and Phillips' promise of tying many loose-ends of this exciting and intelligent tale of murder, betrayal, showbiz business, love, and history. The ending may or may not satisfy some of the readers out there, but that is what the creative team wants us to understand after said and done, not everything ends with a sunset victory. Reading Brubaker's works is like learning something more important than what we mostly learn from schools " real life is not a walk in the park. GREAT READ! Read Full Review
‘The Fade Out' ends in a sudden and blunt way it won't offer any satisfaction and warm fuzzy feelings. Especially because Charlie, drunk and a hot mess, cowers under the bright lights of Hollywood as if the town is laughing at him mocking him. Feeding him the truth without justice or resolution but keeping him alive to work in this cesspool of humanity again. No slow fade out or prologue delivered and that's the perfect conclusion to this bleak tale. It's not the ending we wanted but it's the ending we deserve. Read Full Review
If you're looking for catharsis or clear answers, The Fade Out #12 is going to leave you still looking. That sense of disappointment is exactly why it's great though. Read Full Review
As you can tell, I cannot say enough good about this series. To me, this is the best comic in years, and the best work of the Brubaker and Phillips team. When this is collected in a nice Deluxe hardcover, its a must own for any readers collection. Read Full Review
The Fade Out is a very different type of story than those that Brubaker and Phillips have worked on together before, such as Criminal and Fatale. The Fade Out is much shorter, but its impact is not any less. In fact, since the story is told on such a human level (even though it is set in the movie business and involves a murder), I think the overall story of the series is perhaps the best one the pair have told so far. As it is just twelve issues, I think The Fade Out also becomes a very recommendable story. Its dark, slow at times, and does not have a happy ending. So it will not be to everyones tastes, but it tells a compelling, tragic story (one where the story of most of the major characters are each tragic in their own way just as much as the murder of Val is tragic). There were a few lulls during the series, but overall The Fade Out is a superb story, and The Fade Out #12 is a great ending. Read Full Review
The final image of the book encapsulates the series. Phillips depicts Charlie drunkenly stumbling down the strip, with the lights of the studios behind him. Though he is completely broken and distraught, the studio will move on, with or without him. The Fade Out #12 does a wondrous job concluding the story, as it both solves the mystery in a satisfying way for the readers while still letting its characters move on in a realistic way. Brubaker, Phillips, and Breitweiser stick the landing by staying true to their genre and to their characters. Read Full Review
Brubaker and Phillips have a lot of interesting things so say in this finale, and it's very well done, but some readers may feel let down by Charlie's role, and the air of familiarity to the ending. Read Full Review
Very similar in tone to the ending of “Chinatown”. I thought this was the perfect conclusion to the story.
Amazing series.
Great comic winth a great end. One of the best I've read this year, definitely worth reading. 9.5.
In true noir fashion, this book series ends in a note that reminds you of "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown" and leaves you feeling empty, just the way Brubaker wanted. Definitively a great maxi-series that is not long on the tooth and comes to a natural conclusion.
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