Criminal #4

The storytelling is set at the perfect pace and the artwork sets the perfect tone. This fourth issue is dark, depressing, and exciting, yet there is something extremely beautiful about all of it as well. This team knows how to execute this flawlessly and lucky for us, we get to experience this magic every month. Read Full Review

A wonderful ride through the darker side of this dark universe. Drugs aren't fear and loathing prose or romance, they're a demon biding it's time to take away everything you care about. Read Full Review

This series continues to be outstanding. If you're not pulling this book weekly, then you are the criminal. Read Full Review

Criminal #4 is a depressing comic in so many ways but it also is gripping an done of the best comics of the week. Read Full Review

Crime doesn't pay, but reading about it certainly pays off, again and again. Well-paced storytelling combined with characters both repellant and attractive, Criminal #4 pivots the storyline back to its criminal roots, and promises more, much, much more, to look forward to. Read Full Review

There is a lot of telling rather than showing in Ed Brubaker's script this issue, which makes Sean Phillips's natural talent for conveying emotion and body language all the more important, because it keeps things from feeling slow or procedural. Read Full Review

While a perfectly solid piece of pulpy noir, Criminal #4 is caught in a web of references instead of being able to stand alone as a satisfying issue. Read Full Review

Bill Blaze

May 01, 2019

Oh, man. This is some good writing. Brubaker's obviously done speed before... amongst other things. He describes the psychosis so well.

DDJamesB

May 13, 2019

Criminal has been weird for me. The writing and stories have been awesome but, when you get to the endings it turns into just a page of writing explaining how it ends. While this one got a bit away from that, it really makes you wonder if two parts was needed to get there. Either way I'll take brubaker and Philips criminal over mmany other comics any day.