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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9780785128168 ISBN: 0785128166 Label: Marvel Comics Manufacturer: Marvel Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: December 20, 2007 Publisher: Marvel Comics Studio: Marvel Comics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Twenty years ago, Tracy Lawless traded the crime-ridden streets of the city for a life in the military, and it's a decision he's rarely regretted. But now he's walking out of the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq and back into the world he grew up in, to find out who killed his brother Rick, and why. But truth is one of the few things uglier than family history, and the only thing Tracy has in his favor as he unravels the twisted strands of the criminal life his brother led, is that no one knows who the hell he is. And what they don't know, just might kill them! Collects Criminal #6-10 Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Thrilling Walk On The Dark SideEd Brubaker is one of my favorite writers on the DAREDEVIL monthly comic, which he's still currently writing. He constantly produces razor-sharp dialogue, believable emotion, and enough twists and turns to keep me on my toes. He also had an incredible run on CATWOMAN. His recent work on CAPTAIN AMERICA (especially concerning the resurrection of Bucky Barnes as Winter Soldier and the death of Steve Rogers) catapulted him to national attention. However, I enjoy Brubaker's CRIMINAL comics ... Read More Rating: - Another Brubaker/Phillips successThis trade paperback collects issues #6 to #10 of Marvel's Criminal series from the same creative team as the outstanding 2003-2005 DC/Wildstorm series Sleeper. These five issues comprise a second story arc with a (mostly) new set of characters. Tracy Lawless leaves the Army and returns to "The City" to avenge the death of his estranged younger brother Ricky. Unlike most comic book plots, the gritty, rated-R realism herein requires no leaps of faith from the reader. This book met my high expectations and ... Read More Rating: - Noir at its bleakest and most beautiful.Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' CRIMINAL is the best crime series possibly of all time. It has such a dedication to the pulp-noir roots of artists like authors like Jim Thompson and Paul Auster, and filmmakers like Mike Hodges and Jean-Pierre Melville that these seem like great love notes to the masters of the modern noir. The first arc of CRIMINAL, titled "Coward" is such a pulse-racing and cinematically-styled story that I didn't know if they would be able to top it. Well, they did. ... Read More Rating: - Ed Brubaker delivers another great crime story.I first encountered Ed Brubaker's writing on Marvel's "Captain America" series, which is perhaps the greatest run in the character's history, and I have followed him to such titles as "Uncanny X-Men", "Daredevil", and "The Immortal Iron Fist". Despite his excellent superhero work, he began his career and made his name in the more noirish field of crime and espionage fiction (influences which clearly carry over into his best work). Eventually, after becoming a star at Marvel, he opted to reunite with "Sleeper" ... Read More Rating: - Fantastic series from A creative team that loves noir.This is A great crime story from the team that brought you Sleeper and the first volume of this series Coward. Ed Brubaker(Daredevil,X-men,and more infamously the man who killed Captain America) and Sean Phillips(Batman,Wildcats,and Marvel Zombies)have created what amounts to a hard kiss on the mouth to noir.Brubaker's writing is amazing pulling the story into the present while keeping the flavor of the decades (or centuries or millenium) old revenge story.The art by Phillips is incredible and detailed from the ... Read More 
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