Criminal, the acclaimed series from the Eisner Award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, celebrates its 10th anniversary in April.
To commemorate the occasion, Image Comics will release a 64-page one-shot featuring the strangest tale yet to come from the dynamic creative team: a twisted tale from the 1970s about a father and son on the run from the law.
“Teeg and Tracy Lawless are our most popular characters, so I knew this Anniversary Special had to showcase their early days,” said Brubaker. “A big part of Criminal is finding new ways into noir stories, and this time we get to see it all from the point of view of a 12-year-old kid forced to help his father, who is a career thief and murderer.”
The novella-length story will boast a comic-within-a-comic, and will star a kung-fu werewolf. No, really.
“Once again I get to try out a new style, after the cartooning of The Last Of The Innocent, and the sword and sorcery of last year’s Savage Sword of Criminal,” said Phillips. “This time I get to figure out how to draw a kung-fu werewolf without him looking too silly. Let’s hope I can pull it off! Even if I can’t, it’s great to be back in the Criminal universe again, it’s like we’ve never been away.”
The issue will also be printed in a magazine-sized variant, the perfect companion to last year’s Savage Sword of Criminal variant issue.
The Criminal 10th Anniversary Edition will be in stores April 13th.
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