Criminal (9 books in series)
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review 1: Over the last few weeks, I've read the first four volumes of Criminal. (Actually, I read the individual issues, but it adds up to the same thing.) This is a great series, if you like crime/noir stories. The stories are a *bit* over the top, but not nearly as much so as, say, Sin ...
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review 1: I'm not sure how many ways I can say I like Brubaker's Crime Noir Comics. Each of them has been somewhere between good and great, and each for similar but distinct reasons. Brubaker tells a good crime story, but he's not just telling the same story over and over again. This wa...
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review 1: This one is better than the last volume, but it's still not as good as the first. I like how it's sort of folding in on itself, but I think I may just be over hardass dudes being hardasses and women being dames and dolls and so on.I think I'm done with this series, unless there's...
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review 1: This was another really great crime novel from this team. The only weakness in the book was that the characters weren't as sympathetic as the other criminals in this series but the plot, and art more than made up for it. Sean outdid himself combining his normally gorgeous noir st...
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review 1: A direct followup to Volume 2 (Lawless), the story takes the hero Lawless and ties him up into an even uglier situation than the previous, as he tries to solve a series of murders of 'untouchables.' Lawless isn't much of a detective, and events manage to take several turns for th...
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review 1: More excellent Brubaker-Phillips crime drama NOIR. Read other reviews for the plot regurgitations and over-explanations of the play-by-play. Simply put, All i would suggest is it would probably be helpful to read the prior TPB CRIMINAL compilations in order before jumping into t...
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review 1: This fourth volume builds on the greater character emphasis seen in the last volume. In some ways it's more successful. I found the plot genuinely engaging this time around and while the ideas here have been seen before. The story doesn't reveal it's full hand until the right mom...
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review 1: Another favorite of mine. Imagine if the Riverdale kids, you know...Archie and the gang, were all real. Like very real, with adultry, murder, drugs and crime. I know how that might seem. Just trust me. Trust Brubaker & Phillips. Riley Richards is living the dream life, a good job...
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review 1: Tracy Lawless, the extremely tarnished knight, is back! This is a personal favorite of mine since it was the first Criminal series I picked up. Of course, I was soon hooked and started collecting the rest of the back issues. The story shows that men with honor, not matter how muc...