Z-View – Criminal Special Edition by Brubaker and Phillips

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Criminal Special Edition is a one-shot published by Image.

Writer: Ed Brubaker
Artist: Sean Phillips
Colorist: Elizabeth Breitweiser
Cover Artist: Sean Phillips

CRIMINAL COMES TO IMAGE! To celebrate the return of CRIMINAL to print, BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS return to their awardwinning title for the first time in years for a 48-page special sure to thrill their readers, old and new alike! It’s 1976, and Teeg Lawless is doing 30 days in county jail with a price on his head, his only safe company from the savagery a beat-up old comic magazine his dead cellmate left behind. It’s CRIMINAL like you’ve never seen it before, with a comic within the comic and all those slick ‘70s thrills!

*** Beware – spoilers may be found below ***

The Good

  • Brubaker and Phillips!
  • Criminal is back with a new story!
  • “I wasn’t done reading that yet.”
  • “It’s ****** jail, Wilson.  Just assume everything in here is bad.”
  • Cameo by Tracy Lawless.

The Bad:

  • Teeg Lawless.
  • When Mr. G wants to talk to you and you find out he doesn’t.
  • “So you understand you don’t have that protection? … You’re on your own Lawless.”
  • I could have done with less Savage Sword of Criminal and more Teeg Lawless.

The Ugly:

  • Magazine-Fu to the eye.
  • Nightsticks to the head and body topped off with a stomp to the wrist.
  • Meal tray-fu.  Cast-fu.  Thumb to the eye-fu.  Three on one with a cast in the shower-fu.  Bloody-beat down hanging on the jail cell followed by acid trip attack.

 

Criminal Special Edition

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