BE FIRST ON THE SCENE WITH THE NEW CRIMINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL - FIVE GEARS IN REVERSE
- Byron O'Neal
- 55 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Multiple award winning, bestselling masterminds Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Reckless, Criminal, Where the Body Was, Houses of the Unholy, Night Fever, the forthcoming Unfinished Tales) are back with an all-new Criminal graphic novel. This highly anticipated installment in the team’s longrunning, iconic crime series published by Image Comics will hit shelves exclusively at local comic shops this week and be available everywhere else books are sold next month.
In one of the wildest, most action-packed books that Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, we delve deep into the life of one of Criminal's most complex and tragic characters, Ricky Lawless as he tries to pay off a deep debt to a mobster, while things just keep going from bad to worse. This is the crazy tale of how he and Mallory fell in love in the midst of a crime spree.
Five Gears in Reverse original graphic novel (ISBN: 9781534333208, Lunar Code 1225IM0263) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, May 27 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, June 23.
Unfinished Tales hardcover (ISBN: 9781534330122) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, November 11 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, December 8.
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Brubaker and Phillips’ series are available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
Select praise for Brubaker & Phillips:
"Brubaker and Phillips don't hit a wrong note." —Shane Black, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lethal Weapon
“Two of the best in the business, no contest.” —Kelly Sue DeConnick, Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly
"Brubaker and Phillips are virtuosos in a dark alley." —Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies, Identity Crisis
"Brubaker and Phillips's books have always been about eight years ahead of their time." —Brian K. Vaughan, SAGA, Pride of Baghdad
"Brubaker & Phillips continue to make sweet music together, broadcast to you in the form of the best comics around." —Robert Kirkman, Invincible, Void Rivals
"Ed and Sean are that rare longterm collaboration that never become complacent, each project is a new revelation, the love visibly increased, the enthusiasm for the craft only growing over time. You don't have to consider the purchase, you make it on instinct at this point." —Rick Remender, Escape, The Sacrificers
"Like Scorsese and De Niro, Brubaker and Phillips are the unmatched masters of a certain kind of storytelling—those fables of doomed and deluded men who are ready to die bloody, defending the tatters of their soiled American dreams. A new title from the sharpshooters behind Criminal and Fatale is reason enough to go on living." —Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Horns, NOS4A2
"Brubaker and Phillips have achieved the sort of creative consistency that'd justify critics filing their INSTANT CLASSIC reviews before they even read whatever they put out next." —Kieron Gillen, The Power Fantasy, Die
"I'm a pretty easy mark for any Brubaker-Philips creation..." —Jonathan Hickman, East of West
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