CRIMINAL, the most acclaimed crime comic of the twenty-first century, created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is finally being released in its second deluxe hardcover edition. A winner of several Eisner and Harvey Awards, including Best New Series for 2007 and five for Best Writer. The second volume contains three standalone stories – A Bad Night, The Sinners, and the groundbreaking issue The Last of the Innocent – all packaged together with many bonuses, articles, and artwork that provide a glimpse behind the scenes of its creation, as well as comics that have never been published before. "Brubaker uses the familiar relationships among his cast to reflect on how the veneer of nostalgia, with its cartoonish simplifications, obscures a harsh past." New York Times Each story has its criminal. But in noir, it is often unclear who that criminal actually is… Jacob Kurtz, an artist and former counterfeiter, a man once accused of murdering his own wife, and a person with a troubled past, becomes a prisoner in his own home – and a prisoner of his own inexplicable reactions. He feels as if the vague, dreamily transparent tentacles of his own distant actions are reaching out for him – and only when they tightly wrap around him and…
