Criminal (comics)
| Criminal | |
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Cover to Criminal vol. 1, #1 (October 2006). Art by Sean Phillips.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Icon (Marvel) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | Oct 2006 - present |
| Number of issues |
(vol. 1): 10 (vol. 2): 7 (vol. 3): 5 (vol. 4): 4 |
| Main character(s) | Leo Patterson Tracy Lawless Jake "Gnarly" Brown |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Ed Brubaker |
| Artist(s) | Sean Phillips |
| Colorist(s) |
Val Staples Elizabeth Breitweiser |
| Creator(s) |
Ed Brubaker Sean Phillips |
| Collected editions | |
| Coward | ISBN |
| Lawless | ISBN |
| The Dead and the Dying | ISBN |
| Bad Night | ISBN |
| The Sinners | ISBN |
| The Last of the Innocent | ISBN |
Criminal is an ongoing American creator-owned crime comic book series by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips, originally published by Marvel Comics' Icon imprint, and later by Image Comics.
The series is a meditation on the clichés of the crime genre while remaining realistic and believable.
The first series began in October 2006, and ran for ten issues, which were published as two trade paperback editions, Coward (issues 1-5) and Lawless (issues 6-10), in 2007. In Coward, pickpocket Leo Patterson gets involved in an armored car heist that is not what it seems. In Lawless, AWOL soldier Tracy Lawless infiltrates his brother Ricky's former gang to find out who murdered Ricky. A second series began in February 2008, and ran for seven issues. The first three issues, overlapping stories from the points of view of three characters involved in organized crime in the 1970s, were collected as The Dead and the Dying (issues 1-3, 2008). Issues 4-7 were collected as Bad Night (issues 4-7, 2009). A third series ran for five issues in 2009-2010, and was collected as The Sinners (2010). A fourth series followed in 2011, which ran for four issues, as was collected as The Last of the Innocent (2011).
In 2009, Coward, Lawless and The Dead and the Dying were reprinted as a 432-page "Deluxe Edition" hardcover. Included in this edition are a number of extras, including three of the original backpages "essays" with all 13 original accompanying pieces of art, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund short story No One Rides For Free, the original Coward "trailer" announcing the series, a covers gallery, and a number of pages describing the "process" of making the book. A second hardcover collecting Bad Night, The Sinners, and Last of the Innocent was published in October 2012.
The six trade paperback editions were republished by Image Comics in 2014. Two one-shot issues of new material, Criminal Special Edition (February 2015) and Criminal 10th Anniversary Special (April 2016), followed, and were collected as Wrong Time, Wrong Place in September 2016.
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