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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9780785124399 ISBN: 078512439X Label: Marvel Comics Manufacturer: Marvel Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: June 06, 2007 Publisher: Marvel Comics Studio: Marvel Comics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: From Harvey Award-Winning Best Writer Ed Brubaker, and Scream Award-Winning Best Artist Sean Phillips comes the first collection of Criminal, one of the best reviewed comics of 2006. Coward is the story of Leo, a professional pickpocket who is also a legendary heist-planner and thief. But there's a catch with Leo, he won't work any job that he doesn't call all the shots on, he won't allow guns, and the minute things turn south, he's looking for any exit that won't land him in prison. But when he's lured into a risky heist, all his rules go out the window, and he ends up on the run from the cops and the bad men who double-crossed him. Now Leo must come face-to-face with the violence he's kept bottled up inside for 20 years, and nothing will ever be the same for him again. Collects Criminal #1-5. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips reunite for an inventive new crime seriesCriminal is Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' inventive new crime drama. Each arc is a new story featuring new characters, all loosely connected--somewhat along the lines of Sin City. With Criminal, Brubaker joins Miller, Azzarello, and Bendis as a master of the modern crime comic. Strongly influenced by classic crime novels and films of all time periods, Criminal offers its readers strong characterization, hardboiled dialogue, and intriguing plots. This first volume tells the story of ... Read More Rating: - Noir Scored With A Triphammer HeartbeatEd Brubaker is an award-winning comic scripter who has written about superheroes and superheroines (Batman, Catwoman, Captain America, Daredevil). However, the man has a heart carved from the deepest, darkest noir. His criminals and anti-heroes sing with muscle, malice, and desperation, lifting from the pages to hold readers hostage to their own need to know what's going to happen next. My first brush with Brubaker came through a four-issue comic series from Vertigo - the adult, edgy ... Read More Rating: - Coward puts crime comics back on the map!First of all, let me just say that if you want to experience Criminal to the fullest, you really have to buy the single/monthly issues. I know, it's tough. Suck it up. The monthly issues include the wonderful essays and reviews of noir films and books from industry giants and friends alike including Warren Ellis, Greg Rucka, Matt Fraction, Charles Ardai (Hard Case Crime) and of course, Patton Oswalt (who's taste in noir I like better than his comedy routine). There's more I'm forgetting too. There, ... Read More Rating: - Brubaker and Phillips make a great team"Coward", a crime-oriented graphic novel, reunites writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips, creators of the stunning superpowered spy saga, "Sleeper." I gotta say, I really like this creative team - Phillips really captures some intangible element of Brubaker's writing, and the results are quite delicious. The forlorn, downbeat (or beat-down) sensibilities of Brubaker's savvy antiheroes comes through in every panel, and the mood they set oozes out of the pages. I was thoroughly engrossed by this ... Read More Rating:  - Dissapointingly DerivativeI'm a big fan of crime genre in both fiction and film and a moderate fan of graphic storytelling, so I've been starting to seek out books that bridge the two. The comic book series collected in this volume got great reviews (and an Eisner award I think), so I picked it up with high expectations. The book covers a storyline that spanned five issues, although it oddly doesn't include the issue covers or text that appeared at the end of each. Set in a comicbooky version of '70s-'80s San Francisco ... Read More 
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