Hey everybody... it's the ghost of christmas future, and everyone's favorite webmaster here to shove my infallible opinions down your throat!
Just kidding... I'm blogging today to tell anyone who's overlooked the Ed Brubaker / Sean Phillips masterpiece CRIMINAL to do themselves a favor and PICK THIS STUFF UP!
I just finally picked up volume 2 after skipping it over to read the issues of the newest storyline.. Normally i'd wait to read'em but i've been so enthralled by Brubaker's exciting caper stories and Phillips' gorgeous and confident line work.
I have to admit, when i saw the first issue of Criminal i was fairly skeptical. maybe i just wasn't in the mood for a noir story. It seemed a lot like something i might have seen or read before. Maybe my mind was elsewhere, regardless it didn't take long for me to see what i was missing. I think what did it for me was rereading Brubaker's THE FALL one shot drawn by Jason Lutes. The man writes good believable fiction. He knows how to buy your interest in his characters and their stories... which, in the case of Criminal, are always chock full of grit and lacking remorse. Even if it isn't your thing, Brubaker reels you in and makes it your thing.
so yea, that's my recommendation to all you CBJ cats out there wheelin and dealin so you can make that dough and buy those comix. if you want to read a good heist story.. start reading Criminal.
Just kidding... I'm blogging today to tell anyone who's overlooked the Ed Brubaker / Sean Phillips masterpiece CRIMINAL to do themselves a favor and PICK THIS STUFF UP!
I just finally picked up volume 2 after skipping it over to read the issues of the newest storyline.. Normally i'd wait to read'em but i've been so enthralled by Brubaker's exciting caper stories and Phillips' gorgeous and confident line work.
I have to admit, when i saw the first issue of Criminal i was fairly skeptical. maybe i just wasn't in the mood for a noir story. It seemed a lot like something i might have seen or read before. Maybe my mind was elsewhere, regardless it didn't take long for me to see what i was missing. I think what did it for me was rereading Brubaker's THE FALL one shot drawn by Jason Lutes. The man writes good believable fiction. He knows how to buy your interest in his characters and their stories... which, in the case of Criminal, are always chock full of grit and lacking remorse. Even if it isn't your thing, Brubaker reels you in and makes it your thing.
so yea, that's my recommendation to all you CBJ cats out there wheelin and dealin so you can make that dough and buy those comix. if you want to read a good heist story.. start reading Criminal.
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