Comic Books
Revisiting ‘Criminal,’ Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker’s bleak, beautiful masterwork
With the re-release of the deluxe editions, we delve back into this standout of gritty noir comics.
With the re-release of the deluxe editions, we delve back into this standout of gritty noir comics.
The newest omnibus of Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker's long-running crime story is at its best when it brings comic...
A positive example of our expectations being subverted.
Farraday’s back, baby, and paunchier and drunker than ever.
Brubaker and the Philips are more interested in the inner lives of their misanthropic cast.
#8 evokes Pynchon in the way it reminisces and meditates on how the times change and yet stay the same.
There are a lot of complex things going on here.
While certainly a doomed affair, the central romance lacks a looming sense of tragedy.
This issue comes across like a sliver of an overhanging legacy.
There’s criminal activity here, but a heist isn’t the focus—it’s the tangible sadness of devoting ones life to commodified art.