![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Need I say that this is another home-run for Brubaker/Phillips? ![]() This week the team release the extra-long Criminal 10th Anniversary Special to celebrate this milestone featuring the recurring characters of the Lawless family. Ten years ago this October, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips launched what would become their signature series, Criminal. The importance of reading comics to the formative youth is key here.īrubaker and Phillips apparently can do no wrong. The story is somewhat reminiscent of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub series, where a samurai wanders the earth with his infant son, killing for hire, and Road to Perdition, which also features a criminal Dad with his young son driving for him and reading comics along the way. Reading the comic gives him an opportunity, too, to connect with a girl in the town where dear Daddy does his job. But also sweet and sad happens, too, in this back-story special issue.Īlong the way, Tracy reads a comic, Fang, The Kung Fu Werewolf (drawn for us in fifties/sixties pulp fashion by Phillips), which connects with the main story as in the comic within a comic in Alan Moore's Watchmen. Hey, it's dark noir, so be prepared for bad stuff to happen. Ten years after Criminal had apparently finished its run, Brubaker return to the world of Tracy Lawless and Teeg, though the focus here is of a twisted and sad story of twelve year old Tracy accompanying his (criminal) Dad on one of his jobs. ![]()
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