The Fade Out 6

To Set the World on Fire
By Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser
May 2015

- Charlie escorts Maya to a movie premiere after Tyler Graves got injured in a car accident; having Charlie escort Maya was Dottie's idea after Charlie sent her flowers to make up for the way he behaved in TFO4
- Charlie can't stop thinking about Val; at the after party he approaches Flapjack and tries talking to him about Val and the Krazy Kids at the ranch
- Maya gets into an argument with Desi Arnaz at the after party; it's his band that is playing the party and with whom Flapjack is playing; Charlie says the right thing to make her feel better and they wind up in bed together
- Gil goes to a party thrown by Dashiell Hammett; he asks Hammett for advice which in the end it looks like he takes but maybe that's just a red herring
- possibly the most interesting bit is the difference Charlie and Gil have about alcohol; Charlie drinks it to forget, Gil because he thinks it brings out the best on him; at the end of the night both men lie about how it went; Gil doesn't tell Charlie about going to the party and Charlie doesn't tell Gil about what happened after the after party

- not a whole lot of plot development here or at least that's the way it felt; it's hard to say sometimes until after you've seen the whole picture
- in addition to Arnaz and Hammett, Humphrey Bogart also makes a cameo appearance, possibly there were other celebrity cameos that I didn't recognize

9/8