Criminal, Vol. 1: Coward

By Ed Brubaker

Book Overview

The bestselling crime series returns to print in strikingly designed new editions from Image, starting where it all began: Criminal Volume 1: Coward--a new take on noir that turned the heist story on its head and created a whole new underworld for Brubaker & Phillips to explore.

Brubaker & Phillips' recent series Fatale and The Fade Out have brought their work to a wider audience of new readers, and now is the perfect time to show them the work that made the award-winning team's reputation

"Brubaker and Phillips' books have always been about eight years ahead of their time."

-Brian K. Vaughan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632151707
• ISBN13: 9781632151704
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Image Comics
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

If you like crime stories, buy this.

In terms of style, grit, and ability to integrate genre tropes without feeling cliché, Ed Brubaker's neo-noir stories in the Criminal series are rivaled only by Frank Miller's Sin City. Furthermore, Sean Phillips' art is an eye-pleasing homage to the low key underworld stories of yesteryear. Coward, volume one in this series, tells the story of Leo: a seasoned heist planner whose number one priority is not to get caught. Leo's criminal life is governed by a series of rules that he follows rigorously but when a heist goes sideways, he finds he might have to break them all to clean up the mess he's made. If you like crime stories, you should read this. If you like comic books and you're tired of superheroes, you should read this. If you read this and you don't enjoy it, crime stories probably just aren't for you.