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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9780785132271 ISBN: 0785132279 Label: Marvel Comics Manufacturer: Marvel Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 104 Publication Date: August 06, 2008 Publisher: Marvel Comics Studio: Marvel Comics Sales Rank: 48353 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Winner of the Eisner Award for Best New Series, and Winner of the Harvey and Eisner Awards for Best Writer! The third collection of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' critically-acclaimed noir series follows a different twist of the knife this time -- telling three interlinking stories that take place during the early 1970s and swirl around the fate of a hard-luck Femme Fatale, a boxer and a thief and killer just home from Vietnam. Each story is told from a different narrative point-of-view, so we can see the varied secrets and hidden desires that ultimately lead to a lot of murder and mayhem. Collecting Criminal Volume 2 #1-3 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Volume 3 is excellent prequel of Brubaker & Phillips' gritty crime seriesThis third trade paperback collects three 30-page issues of the consistently outstanding "Criminal" series featuring the same creative team of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips. This story arc was billed as Volume 2, #1-3 of the Marvel series and serves as a prequel to the previous plotline. Back in 1972, the Undertown hosts a previous generation of thugs and miscreants, the final "N" of its neon sign still burned out. The three issues tell an overlapping story from three separate perspectives. ... Read More Rating:  - A Criminal ReviewI didn't find vol. 3 to be as engrossing as the first two volumes in the series. Partly, I think, because of the lack of a central protagonist. Brubaker opts to tell three different interconnected stories here rather than focusing on a central character. I would still recommend The Dead and the Dying if you are a fan of the series, crime fiction, noir, Ed Brubaker's writing, or all of the above. Criminal Vol. 1: Coward, and Criminal Vol. 2: Lawless, are some of the best fiction I've read in awhile. So if you ... Read More Rating: - The bestThe first two volumes of the Criminal were hard boiled bonanza. In third we see a story telling bonanza. The third volume has one story, from three different acters. The story starts from the middle, proceeds to the end for one charaters, then it starts again from the middle, proceeds to the end for one other character and in the third story we see the beginning. This editing trick made the story great, sure the characters are complex, drwaing and coloring are superb, but the story telling and edinting is what ... Read More Rating: - Brubaker and Phillips Deliver Violent NoirI'm a big Ed Brubaker fan. His comics have always carried a crime and noir feeling about them that strike a resonance within me. I know we must have read the same books growing up. Probably still like the same authors, if we compared notes. I've read his work on CAPTAIN AMERICA and DAREDEVIL, and his work on GOTHAM CENTRAL (which is finally getting the hardcover treatment those books are due). I've thrilled to SLEEPER and the undercover cop motif he worked out in that run. Still don't know why ... Read More Rating: - Best Criminal Yet?This volume of Criminal is arguably the best yet. While the characters aren't as immediately likeable as Leo, or desperately engrossing like Tracy, they are perfectly crafted and shoved into a delightfully broken morality tale. I agree word for word with S. Curly in his above review, except for the deduction of one star for the lack of essays. You can't judge this product on what it lacks, but on what it presents. The essays are an incentive to the monthly readers, but they're not Criminal. The book ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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