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[QUOTE=Guthwulf;4812577]Hello everyone.
I bought the hardcover called a Bad weekend, which collects Criminal #2 and #3. And I'm going to buy Cruel summer, that collects #1, #5-12. For some reason issue #4 is not included in any of them. Is issue #4 a special issue somehow? I guess they will probably release a deluxe edition as it happened with the first stories, but I'm curious about this
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While I haven't actually been paying super close attention to how the twelve issues will wind up being collected, there isn't anything particularly special about issue number four.
It's a story that wraps up in just that issue. I had always assumed it would wind up in the "Cruel Summer" trade.
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[QUOTE=numberthirty;4812583]While I haven't actually been paying super close attention to how the twelve issues will wind up being collected, there isn't anything particularly special about issue number four.
It's a story that wraps up in just that issue. I had always assumed it would wind up in the "Cruel Summer" trade.[/QUOTE]
I guess they ignored it because it's a one-shot story then. It would be weird if they don't release a hardcover with all the issues and extras
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I thought they would include issue 4 as an epilogue for "Cruel Summer". Granted that issue worked more setting up the "Coward" and "Lawless" arcs than "Cruel Summer".
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[QUOTE=Guthwulf;4812577]Hello everyone.
I bought the hardcover called a Bad weekend, which collects Criminal #2 and #3. And I'm going to buy Cruel summer, that collects #1, #5-12. For some reason issue #4 is not included in any of them. Is issue #4 a special issue somehow? I guess they will probably release a deluxe edition as it happened with the first stories, but I'm curious about this
Thank you[/QUOTE]
I'm just hoping they collect all the recent Criminal material for the next deluxe hardcover: Criminal 1-12, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Special Edition, and 10th Anniversary Special.
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[QUOTE=Ramsay Snow;4814830]I'm just hoping they collect all the recent Criminal material for the next deluxe hardcover: Criminal 1-12, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Special Edition, and 10th Anniversary Special.[/QUOTE]
It would make sense. In the end My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies is no different to other Criminal stories.
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No discussion of the last issue with the surprising (at least to me) revelatory ending?
I wonder if Bru had this in mind since the first GNs. And boy does it explain why Ricky was effed up. (If I remember "Lawless" correctly)
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[QUOTE=Kirby101;4842779]No discussion of the last issue with the surprising (at least to me) revelatory ending?
I wonder if Bru had this in mind since the first GNs. And boy does it explain why Ricky was effed up. (If I remember "Lawless" correctly)[/QUOTE]
I think he said he had a timeline planned out. So maybe he knew the who and the when but not the why?
You feel really sorry for Tommy and it adds a new layer to Coward.
Hell i felt sorry for Teeg and Jane at the end.
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[QUOTE=the illustrious mr. kenway;4843168]I think he said he had a timeline planned out. So maybe he knew the who and the when but not the why?
You feel really sorry for Tommy and it adds a new layer to Coward.
Hell i felt sorry for Teeg and Jane at the end.[/QUOTE]
And considering what sociopaths they were that was tricky to pull off.
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I guess in a book named Criminal, everybody is the hero/villain of their own story.
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[QUOTE=the illustrious mr. kenway;4843168]I think he said he had a timeline planned out. [B][COLOR="#0000FF"]So maybe he knew the who and the when but not the why?[/COLOR][/B]
You feel really sorry for Tommy and it adds a new layer to Coward.
Hell i felt sorry for Teeg and Jane at the end.[/QUOTE]
One reader's take...
The conversation in jail between Tracy and Tommy feels really specific for a scenario where they didn't really have it almost all the way down.
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As for Teeg, he has always been right on the outskirts of a character that you could sympathize with(at least to me...)
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I figure they knew Leo killed Teeg but not sure why. Its not that immersion breaking to me.
Honestly i wanted a story with Jen. A daughter of thieves who grew up to be a cop/internal affairs is interesting.
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Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips just released the new cover for the second Deluxe edition and it looks beautiful.
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There's also a third deluxe on the way as well :D
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That's excellent news!
Is Criminal volume 1 being rereleased as well?
And do we have dates for any of these?