It shouldn’t make sense, it’s not logical, but it’s this kind of contradictory force that drives Ricky Lawless. “Like being pulled between childhood and real life and missing it already while you’re trying to burn it down at the same time,” he says. It’s a feeling Brubaker remembers from his own days as a teenager. In his afterword, Brubaker describes his character Ricky Lawless, we see Ricky feels this contradiction in his bones. Writingīrubaker knows his characters so fully, that even when they’re walking contradictions, we can still relate to them. Writer Ed Brubaker, artist and letterer Sean Phillips and colorist Jacob Phillips have poured their souls onto every page. It’s a simple, unassuming story that will lull you into a heartbreak. Seeds planted in the first volume of Criminal bloom in Cruel Summer with poetic brilliance. Cruel Summermay not be the end to Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ brilliant series Criminal, but it’s certainly its culmination.
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