A Complete Lowlife #[nn]

Ed Brubaker's *A Complete Lowlife* presents a quietly observed slice of urban life, its cover showing a young, bespectacled figure drifting along a busy city street, rendered in Brubaker's loose, expressive linework with pops of red and yellow lettering. The story title "Cinéma Vérité" signals the kind of raw, unfiltered storytelling that defines this 2001 Top Shelf release. For readers who appreciate comics with a literary, street-level sensibility, this is a compelling place to spend some time.