Monday, April 06, 2020

Criminal: The Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

(pb; 2015: sixth graphic novel in the Criminal series, collecting Criminal: The Last of the Innocent issues 1-4)

From the back cover

“Riley Richards got it all. . . The hottest girl in school and a ticket to the big time, so why isn’t he happy now? Why his he getting involved in gambling and drugs and shady characters in the city? Why can’t he forget the life he left behind in small town Brookview? And why is he suddenly plotting murder?”


Review

Innocent is a familiar, seemingly-nice-guy-with-nasty-secrets work, made excellent by great artwork and writing, which imbues this pulpy graphic novel with a few fresh twists in a tired genre. Worth owning, this.

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