Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Sex Criminals #14
Collapse
X
Collapse
-
Sex Criminals #14
Sex Criminals #14
Released by: Image Comics
Released on: February 17th, 2016.
Written by: Matt Fraction
Illustrated by: Chip Zdarsky
Purchase From Amazon
Not caught up? Get caught up, because things continue to get… complicated for our horny heroes.
Susie walks down the street and interrupts a man as he's sifting through some papers on top of a newspaper box. She's not sure what he's up to so she asks. Turns out he's slipping 'neighborhood notes' into the newspapers, little inserts that he writes himself. As it turns out, those notes are…. explicit. Susie maces him.
Meanwhile, in an office, a man talks to Myrtle about stealing, or more specifically the difficulties of stealing something that doesn't exist. Myrtle goes to see a certain doctor, telling him she needs his help.
Jon walks in on Susie cursing at a piece of wood. She's trying to build something pre-cut but in need of assembly but doesn't know how to use tools. Jon helps her out and she gets aroused as she watches this manly display of know-how. Jon heads off to work where he's assisting his favorite former porno star Ana Kincaid while Susie heads off to her new job where, bored, she starts thinking about the explicit 'neighborhood note,' Jon working with tools and, well, she decides to send Jon an upskirt photo on her phone. The phone buzzes and buzzes on Jon's end but he's out of the room and she sees the picture and a text message from Suzie saying that if Jon doesn't hurry up and get over here that she'll take care of things herself.
When Susie heads to the bathroom to do just that, Kincaid heads to the bathroom to follow suit. When Susie comes and winds up in her special place, Ana is there and she wants to talk. And then we cut to Fraction and Zdarksy (the later now rolling in Jughead money and supporting a coke habit) trying to figure out the best way to make this scene work.
“Why not go meta? We've done meta before.â€
Oh, and Myrtle fucks the doctor to get what she wants and Susie and Rachel talk about relationships that brings her to a conclusion she didn't necessarily want to come to.
This issue isn't nearly as over the top as the last few were but that's not a bad thing because the storyline is still hysterical, the characters are still beautifully written and the events that take place in this issue, as low key as they might be comparatively speaking, are important. This is one of those issues where Fraction's writing takes its time to continue building the characters into interesting people rather than putting them into insane and 'dirty' situations. It works, it's needed, and it makes for an interesting read if not necessarily the most exciting thing to write about.
But it's Sex Criminals, and like ever issue before it this fourteenth installment in the series leaves you wanting more. Zdarsky's art is still appropriately weird, cartoonish in a good way and capable of bringing Fraction's clever writing to life - it gives you want you want. It's a horrible jumping on point for new readers but those who have been reading the series will find much to appreciate and, with the ending happening the way that it happens, even more to look forward to.Posting comments is disabled.
Categories
Collapse
article_tags
Collapse
- album review (218)
- album reviews (274)
- arrow video (271)
- blu-ray (3225)
- blu-ray review (4140)
- comic books (1392)
- comic reviews (872)
- comics (988)
- dark horse comics (484)
- dvd and blu-ray reviews a-f (1969)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews G-M (1711)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews N-S (1757)
- DVD And Blu-ray Reviews T-Z (878)
- dvd review (2512)
- idw publishing (216)
- image comics (207)
- kino lorber (385)
- movie news (260)
- review (318)
- scream factory (279)
- severin films (295)
- shout! factory (537)
- twilight time (269)
- twilight time releasing (231)
- vinegar syndrome (496)
Latest Articles
Collapse
-
Edited by: David C. Hayes
Published by: Bear Manor Media
Released on: September 14th, 2022
Purchase From Amazon
Recently published through Bear Manor Media are two books edited by David C. Hayes sure to appeal to the action movie fan that doesn’t need to take things too seriously – Hard To Watch: The Films Of Steven Seagal and Missing The Action: The Films Of Chuck Norris. Hayes provides an introduction to each of the two books, explaining how he...-
Channel: Books And Comics
01-20-2023, 05:04 PM -
-
Released by: Klubb Super 8
Released on: April, 2021.
Author: Rickard Gramfors
Year: 2021
Purchase From Klubb Super 8 Rickard Gramfors's 384 page full-color hardcover book, Do You Believe In Swedish Sin? Swedish Exploitation Film Posters 1951 - 1984, is a true thing of beauty. Written entirely in English, this weighty tome opens with two quick intros, the first of which spends two pages giving readers a brief history of Swedish exploitation cinema, and the sec...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-18-2021, 11:58 AM -
-
Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
Released on: October 14th, 2020.
Written by: David Avallone
Illustrated by: Dave Acosta
Purchase From Amazon Not caught up? Then you need to pick up volume 1 (which collects the first four issues of this series from writer David Avallone and artist Dave Acosta! For those not hip to these haunted happenings, Doctor Johannes Faust has sent our favorite buxom “hostess with the mostess†travelling through tim...-
Channel: Books And Comics
10-13-2020, 07:24 PM -
-
Dracula, Motherf**ker (Image Comics) Comic Review
Released by: Image Comics
Released on: October 7th, 2020.
Written by: Alex De Campi
Illustrated by: Erica Henderson
Purchase From Amazon Sometimes a good title is all it takes. At the time of this writing, I've just finished cleaning the kitchen, cranked out four reviews that needed to be cranked out, and honestly, I could use a nice little nap right now but then, in my inbox, I see it - a chance to...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-26-2020, 01:45 PM -
-
Released by: Titan Comics
Released on: July 29th, 2020.
Written by: Michael Green, Mike Johnson
Illustrated by: Andres Guinaldo
Purchase From Amazon The second story arc ends with this issue, but first? A quick recap. Ash was the only one to survive the Replicant attack on the off-world mining colony, through Cleo believed her to be dead and, with no other real options, joined the Replicant rebels. A new Blade Runner named Hythe, who has an arrest warrant for...-
Channel: Books And Comics
07-26-2020, 10:16 AM -
-
Judge Dredd: Control (Rebellion Publishing) Comic Review
Released by: 2000 A.D.
Released on: July 9th, 2020 (digital)/December 10th, 2020 (print)
Written by: Rob Williams
Illustrated by: Chris Weston
Purchase From Amazon Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 2035-2036, Judge Dredd: Control opens with a dramatic scene when a Judge in a small flying craft, an H-Wagon it's called, tracks down and deals with the 'We're All Heart' private heart transplant ...-
Channel: Books And Comics
06-28-2020, 04:50 PM -