Rather than start a new storyline like he’s done in the last two issues, Ed Brubaker concludes the second issue’s Bad Weekend story in Criminal #3 - which also unexpectedly ties into the first issue as well!
Jake decides to help his former mentor, embittered old cartoonist Hal Crane, regain some of his art from a collector with the assistance of roguish scumbag Ricky Lawless - but what will they find hidden away in the safe?
Like the last issue, my only real critique is that the material is a bit too inside baseball and I’m overly familiar with the crummy old comics world and its abundance of sad stories to really get swept up with anything here. That and the ending is a bit unsatisfying.
Otherwise, it’s another quality comic in this impressive new run. I liked how Brubaker unexpectedly tied Ricky Lawless into it, I thought the break-in went unpredictably and entertainingly and I also liked the anecdote on Robert Seymour, a real-life Victorian cartoonist who committed suicide after working with a young, then-unknown writer called Charles Dickens - I had no idea the lighthearted Pickwick Papers had such a dark background!
Great writing, storytelling and art from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, one of the most dependable creative teams in the business - Criminal #3 is yet another top notch comic!
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