Reich

Elijah J. Brubaker’s Reich is a single-issue comic begun in 1995, a dense historical drama that explores the moral and psychological wreckage of Nazi Germany through a stark, intimate lens. Published outside the mainstream, it’s a quiet, early work from an artist known for his meticulous research and unflinching approach to difficult history. Though brief, the issue stands as a concentrated meditation on complicity and memory, a footnote in Brubaker’s career that nonetheless shows the gravity that would define his later, longer projects.