CRIMINAL #1
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Art & Wraparound Cover by SEAN PHILLIPS
32 PGS./No Ads/Mature Content …$2.99

BRUBAKER AND PHILLIPS RETURN TO CRIMINAL ROOTS IN NEW ICON SERIES.

This fall award-winning writer Ed Brubaker, whose recent string of hits on Daredevil, Captain America and the X-Men have made him one of the hottest writers in comics, will join best-selling Marvel Zombies artist Sean Phillips for CRIMINAL, from Marvel’s ICON label.

CRIMINAL will tread the line between comics like Fell and Sin City and TV series like The Sopranos, Thief and The Shield. “The main cast of the book, they’re criminals. But I wanted to do something different with it here. I wanted to write a book that explored the clichés of the crime genre and turned them inside out. I wanted to have characters totally unlike the ones you’re used to seeing in crime stories.”

Take the first character we meet: Leo. “He’s not a tough guy,” Brubaker laughs. “Not at all. He just doesn’t want to go to prison. He plays it smart, and tries to avoid violence. But because of the world he lives in, that’s not always possible. That kind of character is incredibly rare in crime fiction, I think, that person concerned with the consequences of their actions. And because of that, Leo’s story is ultimately about a man’s struggle with the violence inside himself.”

What else can readers look forward to in CRIMINAL? Brubaker promises every kind of crime story under the sun. “One of my intentions with this series was to create a book that could handle any and every story I wanted to tell. The cast of the book is a loose-knit gang of crooks – a pickpocket, a hit-man, and a crooked cop, for starters – who each take center stage at different times. This way I can do a heist story, follow that with a revenge drama, and then a prison breakout, all while using the same characters. And as each story unfolds, the mysterious past that connects these characters is revealed, so readers can watch the puzzle of their twisted history being put together.”