Navigating through a world of smoky bar rooms and double-crosses to present tales of heists, murders and cons, CRIMINAL is determined to be different than any other book on the shelves today.
Brubaker promises every kind of crime story under the sun. "One of my intentions with this series was to create a book that could handle any and every story I wanted to tell. The cast of the book is a loose-knit gang of crooks - a pickpocket, a hit-man, and a crooked cop, for starters - who each take centre stage at different times. This way I can do a heist story, follow that with a revenge drama, and then a prison breakout, all while using the same characters. And as each story unfolds, the mysterious past that connects these characters is revealed, so readers can watch the puzzle of their twisted history being put together."
Coward is the story of Leo, a man who can plan and execute almost any heist, but only if he can be convinced the plan is safe enough. But sometimes the reward is worth the risk, and when a woman from Leo's past comes to him with a sure-fire score to nab a few million worth of diamonds from Police Evidence, all his rules and cautions go right out the window. But in the world Leo lives in, as he may soon learn, those rules may be the only thing keeping him alive.
CRIMINAL has received two prestigious Eisner Award nominations, for Best Writer and Best New Series.
"Writer Ed Brubaker understands how to tell a great genre story as well as any storyteller out there, and in the pages of Criminal, it's a hell of a lot of fun watching him spin a familiar heist-gone-wrong story into a riveting character study of seriously flawed yet very human individuals." - IGN.com
Brubaker promises every kind of crime story under the sun. "One of my intentions with this series was to create a book that could handle any and every story I wanted to tell. The cast of the book is a loose-knit gang of crooks - a pickpocket, a hit-man, and a crooked cop, for starters - who each take centre stage at different times. This way I can do a heist story, follow that with a revenge drama, and then a prison breakout, all while using the same characters. And as each story unfolds, the mysterious past that connects these characters is revealed, so readers can watch the puzzle of their twisted history being put together."
Coward is the story of Leo, a man who can plan and execute almost any heist, but only if he can be convinced the plan is safe enough. But sometimes the reward is worth the risk, and when a woman from Leo's past comes to him with a sure-fire score to nab a few million worth of diamonds from Police Evidence, all his rules and cautions go right out the window. But in the world Leo lives in, as he may soon learn, those rules may be the only thing keeping him alive.
CRIMINAL has received two prestigious Eisner Award nominations, for Best Writer and Best New Series.
"Writer Ed Brubaker understands how to tell a great genre story as well as any storyteller out there, and in the pages of Criminal, it's a hell of a lot of fun watching him spin a familiar heist-gone-wrong story into a riveting character study of seriously flawed yet very human individuals." - IGN.com
