‘Criminal’ Archives
Criminal vol04: Bad Night
This forth volume collects issues 4-7 of the second series. I must admit that this is probably my least favorite story so far. But that still means this story is very good. Here the star is Jacob, a counterfeiter who also publishes a strip, Frank Kafka (we've seen the strip in previous stories). He's not a great criminal, he looks like an [...]
Criminal vol03: The Dead & The Dying
This third volume of Criminal collects the first 3 issues of the second series. These issues are longer standalone stories, but they also connected with each other, sometimes telling the same scenes from different points of view. These are stories that take place in the past, further explaining some of the characters past and history. For [...]
Criminal vol02: Lawless
This second volume of Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips continues with this story starring Tracy Lawless. We learn about his history and his return, prompted by his brother Ricky's disappearance. That's part of the story, which will bring him to infiltrate Ricky's old gang and participate in a job. In the end he and we find out what [...]
Criminal vol.1: Coward
Criminal is a new crime series by one of the best crime writers in comics. My first Brubaker story was Scene of the Crime, a great crime noir detective story, with art by Michael Lark and Sean Phillips. Ever since then I've been following his work, among which are Sleeper (also with Sean Phillips) which is a great blend of spy/crime with [...]