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published
February 18th 2009
by Marvel Comics
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Paperback, 112 pages
isbn
0785132287
(isbn13: 9780785132288)
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A woman in trouble, friends on the run from cops and mobsters, and a secret no one is prepared to face! Five years ago, Jake was a happy family man, l…more
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Read in March, 2010
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Read in February, 2010
An almost perfect self-contained crime story that uses the comic medium wonderfully. The wonderful text box narrative, the interactive comic strip characters, and the switching perspective are all wonderful. Phillip's art is still drenched in black, but is the best it's been in my mind.
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I Loved this one! With a femme fatale straight out of James M. Cain and an imaginary friend straight out of Dick Tracy this hard-boiled noir story is perfect in both it's conception and it's execution. The art and the writing are both so so good!
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Read in May, 2009
A bit of a step up from volume 3, BAD NIGHT has some unexpected twists and turns that reminded me of Chandler. But Brubaker takes it a step further with the meta-within-meta cartoon of the Dick Tracy-like detective, which acts as a fun element to Jacob's dilemma (think Christian Slater's mentor in TRUE ROMANCE).
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Read in August, 2009
Predictable, Ed Brubaker is not. "Bad Night" is the most twisted and surprising volume of the "Criminal" series and I'm extremely saddened to hear that it's the last one.
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Read in March, 2009
Not quite as good as the rest of the series. It fits the style and tone of the previous volumes, but the story doesn't quite hold together as well. There's a revelation in the last act that either comes out of nowhere or isn't fully explained (or I just missed it).
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Read in January, 2009
My least favorite of the series. Didn't really care for the meta crossover with the book's interior comic strip.
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Mar 12, 2010
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again, more phillips and brubaker, but their work is just dark enough and real-ish enough for it to keep my attention.
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Read in July, 2009
A great modern Noir story that read like a James M Cain story.
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Read in February, 2009
Bad Night is a hard-boiled comic noir thriller in the tradition of Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, and the novels of James M. Cain. A kind of dimwitted, out-of-control cartoonist gets involved with a femme fatale and her psycho boyfriend, but that's just where it starts. All the classic tropes are here: you can't trust anyone, and there are no clear-cut "good guys." This is the fourth part of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal series, and I can't wait to read the rest.
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