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Since it started up a few years ago , Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal has become one of the standards by which noir crime stories are judged. Criminal takes the reader into a dark world of deception and greed. If you like inventive crime stories with harder than hard characters, these trade paperbacks are must-reads.
We’re also including in this post another Brubaker & Phillips production, Incognito, which brings to the world of the superhumans the same gritty, powerful storytelling from their Criminal series while stepping outside the normal superhero comic story traps.
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CRIMINAL VOL. 1 TP Coward is the story of Leo, a man who can plan and execute almost any heist, but only if he can convinced the plan is safe enough. But sometimes the reward is worth the risk, and when a woman from Leo’s past comes to him with a sure-fire score to nab a few million worth of diamonds from Police Evidence, all his rules and cautions go right out the window. But in the world Leo lives in, as he may soon learn, those rules may be the only thing keeping him alive. Collects Criminal #1-5. |
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CRIMINAL VOL. 2 TP Tracy Lawless has come home for his first Christmas in the city in nearly 20 years. But the only kind of family reunion he’ll find is in a graveyard, because his last living relative, his little brother Ricky, was killed almost a year earlier. Now Tracy is back to find out who did it, and why, and to do that he’ll have to immerse himself back into the criminal world that he once ran away from. The question is, even if he finds the answers he seeks, will he survive the experience? Collects Criminal #6-10. |
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CRIMINAL VOL. 3 TP The third collection follows a different twist of the knife this time–telling three interlinking stories that take place during the early 1970s and swirl around the fate of a hard-luck Femme Fatale, a boxer and a thief and killer just home from Vietnam. Each story is told from a different narrative point-of-view, so we can see the varied secrets and hidden desires that ultimately lead to a lot of murder and mayhem. Collects Criminal Vol. 2 #1-3. |
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CRIMINAL VOL. 4 TP The craziest Criminal arc yet is collected! Years ago Jacob’s life was torn apart, and now one bad decision on one bad night may shatter what little he’s got left. A searing tale of sex, obsession, greed and insanity! Collects Criminal Vol. 2 #4-7. |
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CRIMINAL VOL. 5 TP Tracy Lawless returns to star in a tale of vigilante justice and twisted betrayal as the streets of his old home town start to box him in like never before. Made Men are being killed all over the city, and since criminals don’t go to the cops for help, only Tracy can solve these murders… If he can survive long enough. Featuring an introduction by best-selling crime novelist Ian Rankin. |
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CRIMINAL VOL. 6 TP Obsession, sex, money, and longing for days long past all collide in The Last of the Innocent. Riley Richards got it all… The hottest girl in school and a ticket to the big time. So why isn’t he happy now? Why can’t he forget the life he left behind in small town Brookview? And why is he plotting a murder? Introduction by best-selling author, actor, and stand-up comic Patton Oswalt. |
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INCOGNITO VOL. 1 TP Zach is a flie clerk in a dead end job… or is he really a super-villain hiding in Witness Protection? As his powers begin to return, our anti-hero’s life begins to unravel in a dark and explosive fashion. Incognito is the sexy black comic pulp tale that you’ll never forget. |
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INCOGNITO VOL. 2 TP Zack Overkill has been out of the life for years, pretending to be an average civilian when he’s anything but. Now he’s tasked with a possible suicide mission back into the super-criminal underworld he came from… And it’ll be a season in hell even if Zack survives. INCOGNITO: BAD INFLUENCES goes to the darkest corners of a hard-edged pulp world, and just keeps on punching. The sequel to last year’s best selling INCOGNITO. |
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