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BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' hard-to-findCRIMINAL hardbacks are finally back in print, and joining them is thelong-awaited CRIMINAL: DELUXE EDITION, VOL. 3. This oversized deluxe hardback collectsseveral short stories and novellas from the most award-winning team in thehistory of comics in a fantastically-designed book full of extras --illustrations, selected articles, interviews, behind the scenes looks, paintedcovers... and much much more! Collects the SAVAGE SWORD OF CRIMINAL andDEADLY HANDS OF CRIMINAL magazines, the novellas MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYSBEEN JUNKIES and BAD WEEKEND, and issues 1 and 4 of the newest run ofthe CRIMINAL monthly series, two full length short stories about theLAWLESS family. A true collector's editionmust-have for any fan of the best in crime comics.… (more)
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* Criminal, vol. 7: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
which in turn collected the one-shots "Savage Sword of Criminal", following Teeg Lawless in prison in 1976, and "Deadly Hands of Criminal", following Tracy Lawless on a summer-long road trip with his father in 1979.
* the graphic novel "My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies", following a girl later revealed to be Angela Watson at a rehab clinic a decade after her appearance in vol. 1 "Coward". This won the 2019 Eisner award for best new graphic album.
* "The Night Callers" (#1 of the 2019 relaunch), a short story about Ricky Lawless in 1988, also reprinted in the 'Cruel Summer' collection where it serves as a prologue to the main story.
* the graphic novel "Bad Weekend" (originally #2 and #3 of the 2019 relaunch, here in an expanded edition made for its paperback release), following Jacob Kurtz in 1997, during his counterfeiting days prior to his appearances in vol. 2 "Lawless" and vol. 4 "Bad Night", as he is recruited to shepherd his comic artist mentor Hal Crane through a convention weekend.
* "Orphans" (#4 of the 2019 relaunch, never collected in a paperback)
* Brubaker's short afterwords on each story included, Kim Morgan's discussion of the films "Angels With Dirty Faces" and "The Color of Money", sketches and covers by Phillips, and the 'trailer' comic pages for "Savage Sword of Criminal", "Deadly Hands of Criminal" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies".