Criminal #1
- Title: Criminal #1
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- Writer: Ed Brubaker
- Artist: Sean Phillips
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have been telling Criminal stories off-and-on for more than a dozen years now. While I may selfishly prefer the pair spend more time on new Velvet or Fatale comics, it’s impossible to not admire their return to the crime comic series.
The latest volume starts out with young teenage punk Ricky Lawless stealing a necklace from an elderly mark in a sequence that ends poorly for the old man in a brutal sequence of events. Recently released from prison, career criminal Teeg Lawless finds himself up shit’s creek dealing with the ramifications of son’s actions that he has no idea of how to put right.
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