Criminal TP (2025)
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the tenth story in Brubaker and Phillips' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. Brubaker and Phillips biggest Criminal tale yet -- In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives. An epic tale of tragedy handed down from generation to generation, _Cruel Summer _is a crime comic masterpiece from the most celebrated noir masters in the industry
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the ninth story in Brubaker and Phillips' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. The ultimate comic con crime tale is here, as Jacob (last seen in Criminal Volume 4: Bad Night) dives into the underbelly of the world of comics to escort his old mentor to a convention. Comics won't just break your heart. Comics will kill you. And Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at a convention, waiting to receive a lifetime achievement award, Hal's weekend takes us on a dark ride through the secret history of a medium that's always been haunted by crooks, swindlers, and desperate dreamers.
Series Subscriptions — Coming Soon
Subscribe to get new issues automatically added to your pull list.
Writer
Ed BrubakerArtist
Sean PhillipsAll Issues
Issue #10
$24.99Criminal TPB Volume 10 Cruel Summer New Printing (Mature)
Issue #8
$13.99Criminal TPB Volume 08 My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies New Printing (Mature)
Issue #7
$16.99Criminal TPB Volume 07 Wrong Time Wrong Place New Printing (Mature)
Issue #6
$16.99Criminal TPB Volume 06 The Last Of The Innocent New Printing (Mature)
Reading Order
-
Criminal TPB Volume 01 Coward (Mature)
"Acclaimed as one of the best new series of 2006, the first edition of Harvey Award Winning Best Writer Ed Brubaker and Scream Award Winning Best Artist Sean Phillips ground-breaking new series is finally here! Collecting the sold-out and hard-to-find first arc 'Coward' promises to be one of the trade highlights of the year, and readers of these white-hot creators other projects, such as Daredevil, Captain America, and Marvel Zombies will not want to miss it! Coward is the story of Leo, a man who can plan and execute almost any heist, but only if he can convinced the plan is safe enough. But sometimes the reward is worth the risk, and when a woman from Leo's past comes to him with a sure-fire score to nab a few million worth of diamonds from Police Evidence, all his rules and cautions go right out the window. But in the world Leo lives in, as he may soon learn, those rules may be the only thing keeping him alive. 128 PGS/Mature Content $14.99"
-
Criminal TPB Volume 02 Lawless (Oct072158) (Mature)
"Written by Ed Brubaker Pencils and Cover by Sean Phillips A CHRISTMAS EVE HEIST STORY - JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Tracy Lawless has come home for his first Christmas in the city in nearly twenty years. But the only kind of family reunion he'll find is in a graveyard, because his last living relative, his little brother Ricky, was killed almost a year earlier. Now Tracy is back to find out who did it, and why, and to do that he'll have to immerse himself back into the criminal world that he once ran away from. The question is, even if he finds the answers he seeks, will he survive the experience? Winner of the EISNER AWARDS for Best Writer and Best New Series!"
-
Criminal TPB Volume 03 Dead And Dying (Mature)
"Written by ED BRUBAKER Art by SEAN PHILLIPS The third collection of Ed Brubaker and Sean Philiips' 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. 104 PGS./Mature Content ...$11.99"
-
Criminal TPB Volume 04 Bad Night (Nov082430) (Mature)
"The craziest Criminal arc yet is collected! Years ago Jacob's life was torn apart, and now one bad decision on one bad night may shatter what little he's got left. A searing tale of sex, obsession, greed and insanity by best-selling creators Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips! 120 pgs/Mature Content.... $14.99"
-
Criminal TPB Volume 05 Sinners (Mature)
"From the acclaimed and award-winning team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS. The New York Times listed CRIMINAL as one of the best books of the year, and THE SINNERS is a perfect place to find out why. TRACY LAWLESS returns to star in a tale of vigilante justice and twisted betrayal as the streets of his old home town start to box him in like never before. Made Men are being killed all over the city, and since criminals don't go to the cops for help, only Tracy can solve these murders... If he can survive long enough. Featuring an introduction by best-selling crime novelist Ian Rankin."
-
Criminal TPB Volume 06 The Last Of The Innocent New Printing (Mature)
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the sixth story arc of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' new CRIMINAL releases finally get to the most critically acclaimed and innovative piece of pulp fiction they've ever done. One-part a coldblooded murder, one-part a twisted meditation on nostalgia through the lens of kids comics. It's "like Watchmen for the Archie set" as CRIMINAL reaches new heights!
-
Criminal TPB Volume 07 Wrong Time Wrong Place New Printing (Mature)
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the seventh volume of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS return to their multiple award-winning series for two interlinked tales of the Lawless family in the 1970s. Teeg Lawless is trapped behind bars with a price on his head, doing anything he can to survive, while Tracy Lawless celebrates his 12th birthday riding shotgun on a mission of death.
-
Criminal TPB Volume 08 My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies New Printing (Mature)
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the eighth volume of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. Teenage Ellie has always romanticized drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills, ever since the death of her junkie mother ten years ago. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is as it appears to be, she'll find another—more dangerous—romance, and discover how easily drugs and murder go hand-in-hand. An Eisner-winner for Best Graphic Novel 2019—MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES is a seductive coming-of-age story, a pop and drug culture-fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness...and what she finds there.
-
Criminal TPB Volume 09 Bad Weekend New Printing (Mature)
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the ninth story in Brubaker and Phillips' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. The ultimate comic con crime tale is here, as Jacob (last seen in Criminal Volume 4: Bad Night) dives into the underbelly of the world of comics to escort his old mentor to a convention. Comics won't just break your heart. Comics will kill you. And Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at a convention, waiting to receive a lifetime achievement award, Hal's weekend takes us on a dark ride through the secret history of a medium that's always been haunted by crooks, swindlers, and desperate dreamers.
-
Criminal TPB Volume 10 Cruel Summer New Printing (Mature)
Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the tenth story in Brubaker and Phillips' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design. Brubaker and Phillips biggest Criminal tale yet -- In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives. An epic tale of tragedy handed down from generation to generation, _Cruel Summer _is a crime comic masterpiece from the most celebrated noir masters in the industry
Publication Timeline
November 19, 2025
Issue #9 - Criminal TPB Volume 09 Bad Weekend New Printing (Mature)
December 07, 2011
June 16, 2010
February 18, 2009
February 18, 2009
February 18, 2009
Issue #2 - Criminal TPB Volume 02 Lawless (Oct072158) (Mature)