August 8th, 2025
One of our favorite creative teams in comics is back with a new chilling CRIMINAL book, THE KNIVES!! The Eisner award-winning team Brubaker and Phillips have stunned us time and time again with their incredible creative direction for some of the best crime and noir comics out there!
And, to get hype for this epic new addition to the CRIMINAL realm & its series premiering on PRIME video soon, we’re listing some of our FAVORITE Brubaker & Phillips titles you can get your hands on! Don’t miss out on this masterful storytelling from Brubaker & Phillips!
GET STOKED FOR THE KNIVES (RELEASING THIS AUGUST 8/27!)
THE FIRST NEW CRIMINAL BOOK IN FIVE YEARS!!!
A sprawling CRIMINAL epic, THE KNIVES is the most ambitious tale BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS have ever tackled. Three dark journeys wind around each other over a decade, like sharks hunting for a kill.
Cartoonist Jacob Kurtz goes to Hollywood in the era of peak TV to work on an adaptation of his comic strip, only to find himself caught up in the life of his aging aunt and the vultures circling her estate. Angie was raised at the Undertow, but now everything she loves has been taken from her. She’s on the streets with vengeance on her mind, her eyes set on the city’s kingpin. And finally, Tracy Lawless is home from the special forces, finally a civilian again, but he’s in bad shape and this city has always brought out the worst in him.
These three tales collide in THE KNIVES, a breathtaking noir story about greed, ambition, heartbreak, and blood ties. A must-have for all BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS fans!!
1 – CRIMINAL
In this first installment of the bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning crime noir series, 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.
2 – RECKLESS
Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles, and the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, the modern masters of crime noir, bring us the last thing anyone expected from them-a good guy. A bold new series of original graphic novels, with three books releasing over the next year, each a full-length story that stands on its own. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his radical student days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears…his own past.
3 – PULP
Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word-tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, PULP is unlike anything award-winning BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS have ever done before. This celebration of pulp fiction set in a world on the brink is another must-have from one of comics’ most acclaimed teams.
4 – FATALE
Josephine is cursed, and in a series that darkly blends American crime noir with unnamed Lovecraftian horrors, we follow her from 1950s San Francisco, where crooked cops hide deeper evils, to mid-’70s L.A., where burnt-out actors and ex-cult groupies are caught in a web around a satanic snuff film, then back through the ages of time…and in the middle of it all is Josephine, with a power to die or kill for.
5 – KILL OR BE KILLED
Grad student Dylan must kill one person who deserves it every month, and the deeper he gets in, the more he realizes how many people there are that deserve it.
Catcher in the Rye meets Death Wish in a dark take on the vigilante genre that became a cracked reflection of the world around us.
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