6/26/2023 0 Comments Ed brubaker criminal series![]() ![]() ![]() "With an assist from Phillips' noir-kissed art, Brubaker proves a wordsmith of rare restraint, fine-tuning a well-worn genre." - Entertainment Weekly. Best of all, it doesn't snicker at what it is, and it doesn't apologize for it, either." - Frank Miller (Sin City, 300, Dark Knight Returns). "Not many people really understand what makes a crime story tick. CRIMINAL is seriously enviable work." - Howard Chaykin (American Flagg, Black Kiss, The Shadow). In that slim category is the work done here by Brubaker, Phillips and Staples. Just the dough - it's rare that I covet anyone's professional output. "I don't waste a lot of time at it, but I do occasionally feel jealous of a number of my colleagues' incomes. And what they don't know, just might kill them." - from the rear outer cover. 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. But now he's walking out of the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq and back into the world he came from, to find out who killed his brother Rick, and why. "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. Winner of the Eisner Awards for best new series and best writer! Unpaginated. Includes Introduction by Frank Miller, New York City, 2007. As new condition glossy color illustrated softcover wraps. ![]()
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