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July 24, 2008
Rob Read: Criminal Volume 3 - The Dead and the Dying
Criminal is my perfect comic book. When I grow up this is the kind of book I want to make.
I love everything about this book, top to bottom. Ed Brubaker's writing is second to none when it comes to this sort of gripping noir. The atmosphere, the tight plotting, the characterization, the easily-quotable dialogue ("My pussy is a weapon"), all of it adds up to be the best kind of read: The one you can read over and over and get something new from it each time.
Then there's Sean Phillips, one of the very best artists working today in and out of the comic book field. No one does what he does better, and it's a true delight watching him doing it in Criminal. His deceptively easy-looking effort at creating the perfect atmosphere to bring Brubaker's stories to life gives the book a great kind of shelf life, in that it never makes it on the shelf and stays right on my desk so that I can ooo and aaaahh over the lush brushstrokes on a regular basis.
Posted by Schamberger at July 24, 2008 07:16 PM