Tree, although not an anthology, was was no slouch when it came to ballsy ambitioun), but Brubaker and Phillips’ Criminalis something else again, a seemingly perfect blend of text and art. There have been other crime comic anthologies before, of course, and some have even tried to place them in a similar, loosely connected universe (David Lapham’s amazing Stray Bullets immediately comes to mind, and Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty’s Ms. Not really.Ĭriminalbegan in October 2006, initially published by Marvel’s Icon imprint, and followed the crimes (successful and otherwise) and misadventures of a loosely connected assortment of thieves, pickpockets, enforcers, army deserters, mobsters, cops, victims, junkies, innocent and not-so-innocent bystanders, cons and ex-cons and various members of the appropriately named Lawless family. The action skips back and forth in time, and is mostly based in the fictitious Center City, although these miscreants certainly seem to get around.Ībout the only thing they’ve left out, really, is private eyes, and I’m pleased to report that they’ve finally rectified that glaring omission, with the introduction, at least for a while, of hapless Dan Farraday, into the Criminal universe in the June 2019 issue of the new monthly series by Image. No, the long-running, Eisner-winning CRIMINAL comic book series, written by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, isn’t a P.I.
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