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Criminal Vol. 3: The Dead and The Dying
by: Ed Brubaker

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey 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
Sales Rank: 50785
Studio: Marvel Comics

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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

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- Volume 3 is excellent prequel of Brubaker & Phillips' gritty crime series
This 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. Issue 1 centers on the pugilist past of Gnarly, the current Undertown bartender. #2 features Teeg Lawless, father of Tracy, the protagonist of the second TPB. #3 centers on hard luck Danica Briggs, pictured on the cover and deeply involved with the previous two characters. Unlike most comic book plots, the gritty, rated-R realism herein requires no leaps of faith from the reader. This book met my high expectations ... Read More

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- A Criminal Review
I 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 are looking for an introduction to the series, start there.

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- The best
The 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 made this one great for me. If you want the good stuff read Parker novels, if you want the best read Criminal.

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- Brubaker and Phillips Deliver Violent Noir
I'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 that hasn't become a movie, but maybe it's in the works.

But I'm really wowed by his CRIMINAL books. The comic series comes out irregularly, when Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have time to put the issues out. Timeliness is a big thing in comics these days, so they make sure they're ready to rock and roll before they start releasing them.

I've reviewed the previous two CRIMINAL graphic ... Read More

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