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Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' 'Criminal' Series Gets New Printings Ahead of TV Adaptation

 The first season of the TV show will cover the first two story arcs of the comic book series, Criminal, Volume One: Coward and Criminal, Volume Two: Lawless



The bestselling, fan-favorite Criminal series by multiple award-winning team Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Reckless, Houses of the Unholy, Fatale) will get a glow-up this year with trade paperback reprints featuring new cover art and design from Phillips and published by Image Comics.

A television adaptation of this iconic series was in production most of 2024 with Brubaker serving as showrunner, and is coming to Amazon Prime later this year, starring Charlie Hunnam, Luke Evans, and Emilia Clarke. The first season of the TV show will cover the first two story arcs of the comic book series, Criminal, Volume One: Coward and Criminal, Volume Two: Lawless.



"Preparing for the wider world to discover Criminal as a TV series, Sean and I wanted 2025 to be a big celebration of Criminal, and I couldn't think of a better way to start that off than redesigning the entire series from the ground up, with these amazing new covers that Sean has created. Our next step in the celebration is still a surprise... but expect to see it announced soon, too," said Ed Brubaker. "Running the Criminal TV show was a life-changing experience, but it also made me appreciate the comics more than I ever had, at the same time, and I can't wait for new audiences to discover this wide world of crime that Sean and I have spent all these years building."

In the first installment of the bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning crime noir series, Criminal, Volume 1: Coward, readers meet Leo, a world-class pickpocket who is pressed into helping the cops pull off a heist. But when the job goes terribly wrong, Leo must go into hiding, his dire situation escalates, forcing the thief to put his skills to the test.

Criminal, Volume 2: Lawless is a story of brotherly love and hate, as Tracy Lawless returns home to find out who murdered his kid brother, and how much their family history has doomed them both. This is where Brubaker and Phillips take the world they created in volume one and begin stretching the boundaries of what crime comics can be.

Originally published in 2007, Criminal, Volume 1 and  Criminal, Volume 2 are just the beginning of the critically acclaimed comic book series that follows a cast of characters connected through a shared criminal history.


Criminal, Volume 1: Coward trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534370906, Lunar Code 1124IM265) and Criminal, Volume 2: Lawless trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534385078, Lunar Code 1124IM266) will be available at local comic book shops later this month on Wednesday, January 22 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, February 4. 

Criminal, Volume 3: The Dead and The Dying trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534341869, Lunar Code 1224IM389) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, February 19 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, March 4.

Criminal, Volume 4: Bad Night trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534374003, Lunar Code 0125IM471) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, March 19 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, April 1.

Criminal, Volume 5: The Sinners trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534347281) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, April 23 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, May 6.

Criminal, Volume 6: Last of the Innocent trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534357617) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, May 21 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, June 3.

Criminal, Volume 7: Wrong Place Wrong Time trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534353619) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, June 18 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, July 1.

Criminal, Volume 8: My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies trade paperback new edition (ISBN: 9781534350670) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, July 23 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, August 5.

Criminal is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.



Select praise for Brubaker & Phillips:

"Brubaker and Phillips's books have always been about eight years ahead of their time." —Brian K. Vaughan, SAGA, Paper Girls

"Brubaker & Phillips continue to make sweet music together, broadcast to you in the form of the best comics around." —Robert Kirkman, Invincible, The Walking Dead

"Ed and Sean are that rare, long term collaboration that never becomes 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, Deadly Class, Black Science

"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 Wicked + The Divine, Die

"I’ve been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: 'ugh! I wish I would’ve thought of that!'" —Brian Michael Bendis, Powers

"I'm a pretty easy mark for any Brubaker-Philips creation..." —Jonathan Hickman, East of West, House of X

“Two of the best in the business, no contest.” —Kelly Sue DeConnick, Captain Marvel, B*tch Planet





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