Criminal Volume 9: Bad Weekend (New Edition)

＂With this Eisner Award-winning volume, expanding stories first serialized in the ＂Criminal＂ series, the incomparable team of Brubaker and Phillips once again prove themselves among the best creators of crime fiction in any genre.＂ --Library Journal (starred review)

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.

Ed Brubaker is one of the most acclaimed writers in comics, winning five best writer Eisner and Harvey Awards in the last ten years. His bestselling work with Sean Phillips on Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, and The Fade Out has been translated around the world to great acclaim, and Marvel’s movies featuring his co-creation, The Winter Soldier, have all been international blockbusters. Ed lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their crazy dog, where he works in comics, film, and television, most recently on HBO’s new hit series Westworld.

Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, Eisner Award winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, MarvelZombies, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Sean has concentrated on creator-owned books including Criminal, Kill Or Be Killed, Incognito, Fatale and The Fade Out.

He is currently drawing a new volume of the long-running Criminal series written by his long-time collaborator Ed Brubaker and coloured by his son Jacob Phillips.

He lives in the Lake District in the UK.