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    Sex Criminals #10
    Released by: Image Comics
    Released on: January 28th, 2015.
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    Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarksy continue pervert the comic book universe with this tenth chapter in their lauded and beloved series, Sex Criminals. When the issue begins, a man sits in a crappy restaurant and eats chicken as he writes. A woman asks him what he's writing, and from here we see Jon standing naked and erect in front of a black box. Jon's actually laying back on a recliner and the man who was doing the writing is his shrink. They're in session and Jon asks him if having bad or meaningless sex makes him a bad person. But really, Jon's not there to talk about sex, he's there to talk about… love.

    Later he meets Suzie in the park. She's chowing down on some chicken too. She asks him about therapy, he tells her it's hard. Cut to an office, Jon and Suzie are there with Doctor Ana Kincaid, former adult movie star turned professional and they're there to ask her if she is able to go to 'cum world' like they are. They hand her a folder full of her personal information acquired from a 'Tilda Swinton looking bitch' (oh her, she's a cop!). They want Kincaid's help shutting her down. Meanwhile, OBGYN Robert Rainbow is talking to Susie's roommate, Rachelle, about why he got into the business that he's in - it wasn't for the pussy, it was to deliver babies.

    Cut to a hotel upstate somewhere - Suzie and Jon are there and Kincaid shows up. With a box of toys. It seems she's willing to give this a shot after all, but Jon and Suzie figure they'll have sex in one room while she goes at it solo in another room. No need for a three-way, right? Kincaid's skeptical - she's a former porn star and has done it all. She needs a lot more stimulation than most women to feel anything at all. Rainbow and Rachelle are in a car in the hotel parking lot, occupying themselves in their own way, and we'll leave it at that.

    It'd be inaccurate to say that Sex Criminals keeps getting better, because that's not the case. Sex Criminals has been great from the first issue and it has more or less stayed that way. This issue continues that trend of greatness and the series remains the right mix of obscene humor, surrealist mystery and impressively believable, human emotion. Fraction is evidently smart enough not to let the film outweigh the plot and while the series may come close at times, that hasn't happened yet, nor should it. Jon and Suzie need to remain likeable, believable and to a great extent relatable for this series to work. Having them deal with day to day problems and common psychological issues ensures that these traits remain a big part of the series - that's important. Just as important as the sex and the insanity.

    Zdarsky's art is just as good here as it has been in the nine issues prior. The right mix of cartoonish expressiveness and detail work. He gets to draw a lot of boners in this issue, more boners than ever before, and a lot of splayed vaginas too, but what impresses more than that is the creativity behind some of the panel and page layouts. Splayed vaginas are great but the scenes in which Jon stands in front of that strange black box have a much stronger impact while a panel in which we see Jon on the couch in full color and his shrink a silhouette in the foreground is both stylish and neat to look at but also appropriate in terms of focus. His stuff isn't hyper detailed but it doesn't need to be. These guys tell stories together really well and Sex Criminals remains shockingly consistent in its excellence, its ability to surprise and entertain and in its dedication to top notch character development.
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