A Complete Lowlife #[nn]

Ed Brubaker's *A Complete Lowlife* arrives as part of Black Eye Books' picture story collection line, gathering his semi-autobiographical work under one cover. Brubaker's own art plants a bespectacled young man in a work shirt — name tag reading "Tommy" — squarely in the middle of a busy urban street scene, all rendered in confident black-and-white linework that makes the city feel lived-in and a little worn. It's the kind of honest, street-level comics storytelling that made 1997 an exciting time for alternative voices in the medium.