If you're still kicking yourself because you missed the single issues of the first arc of Ed Brubaker's Criminal ("Coward"), quit your whining and get to your nearest comic shop. The second story arc is currently underway, and "Lawless, Part Two" (issue #7) is in stores now.Why, you ask, should you pick up single issues when you know there will be a trade collection at some point? Because the single issues feature cool-as-shit DVD-style extras. (This month, it's an essay on Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye by Steven Grant.) And in this issue, Brubaker does me the solid of mentioning The Wheelman, The Blonde and This Here's A Stick-Up in his back-of-the-book letter. So do him a solid and pick up multiple issues. Your friends will only try to permanently "borrow" them anyway.
I'm such a hypochondriac, that I forgot what my comment was going to be, because when I couldn't read the word verification thingy that weeds out the spam-bots from humans, I thought I was having a stroke...
ReplyDeletetoo much watching House, MD and not enough reading crime-fiction?
C'mon, Duane, pitch that Punisher goes to Philadelphia epic already! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe Punisher would have a blast in Philly. Multiple blasts, actually.
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