rltinha's review against another edition
5.0
(Não terá sido por acaso que, num certo MOOC sobre comics que frequentei, um dos painéis escolhidos para análise foi retirado deste volume.)
Um clássico, este Criminal.
A dupla Brubaker/Phillips vem dando bastas pérolas noir às varas consumidoras de arte sequencial. Tenho dito.
Um clássico, este Criminal.
A dupla Brubaker/Phillips vem dando bastas pérolas noir às varas consumidoras de arte sequencial. Tenho dito.
krystofsubr's review against another edition
5.0
Fucking incredible. Incredibly engaging filled with great twists, interesting characters and bad decisions. Sean Phillips´s art is beautiful. Can´t wait to read the rest of this series.
haseki_sultana's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
cmcrockford's review against another edition
4.0
Great crime fiction and noir is rooted in this obsession with original sin, predestination: there was no other way this could have gone because of how it all started, because of who you are, what you did. It is the most fatalistic genre, but still tied most distinctly to action, choice. There's agency here but that was warped and twisted long ago. Brubaker and Philips know how to use their stories to walk their characters backwards, to see how a relationship, murder, or situation really started because of the unspeakable truths, the bad things we do to each other. Bad Night is no exception: there's a bit here that seems like a smart literary technique and nod to newspaper comics, and then it slowly becomes something darker buried in the main character's mind. When it's exposed it's chilling stuff, and it loops beautifully, elegantly back to what was before. In noir, we are left with what we do here on this earth. Nothing else.
joeh's review against another edition
5.0
The continuance of Brubaker's amazing Noir series hits all the right notes. Huge recommend for anyone interested in crime-related literature.
colophonphile's review against another edition
This book is the one that notches the whole series up from incredibly good to great. In every volume of Criminal, part of the pleasure is how characters from the background of one story appear in the foreground of the next -- and vice versa. Here the character is none other than the artist of a comic strip that appeared early on in the series. That Brubaker trusts we'd remember is one thing, and that the character turns out to be so complicated in his status as former criminal suspect is something else. But what really knocks this one out of the park is how Brubaker's Criminal partner, the artist Sean Philips, blends the comic strip with the story as it proceeds. Hallucinatory.
djasson's review against another edition
1.0
Where Fatale had a cool storyline, developed characters, and great art, Bad Night only has empty characters, violence for fun, and sleaze without need.
jakekilroy's review against another edition
4.0
I wish I had read this as a young teenager. I would've lost my mind on the noir and empty-hearted detective vs. criminal world feeling that has losers winding up with grand sex.