If I d gotten this when I was 12 everything would ve been so different Kindle Edition On my list for quite a long time finally got to it Though it s overlong and meandering and doesn t quite make sense it s beautifully drawn packed with visual gags and horny as hell Jon is an extremely flawed protagonist and Susie is beautiful and interesting and sympathetic I don t know how much this will stick with me like Nicholson Baker s The Fermata I ll probably remember the premise a lot than the specifics Kindle Edition _All 31 award winning headline grabbing head spinning genre defying issues of SEX CRIMINALS collected in one soft unthreatening volume celebrating its tenth ish anniversary Bonnie Clyde meets The 40 Year Old Virgin by way of When Harry Met Sally_ only none of these orgasms are fake When Suzie and Jon have sex time stops Literally So they have lots of sex fall in love and eventually start robbing banks Until they find out they re not alone Collects Sex Criminals issues 1 30 the one shot special issue 69 Select praise accolades for the Sex Criminals Eisner Award winning Best New Series Harvey Award winning Best New Series 1 New York Times Bestseller 1 Literary Graphic Novels _Entertainment Weekly s Must List_ _Publishers Weekly Bestseller_ Fraction s best work yet It s a precision tuned screwball comedy on its surface and that surface is gorgeous thanks to Zdarsky s ace sense of design and inventive color technique TIME An honest heartfelt story about relationships that was John Hughes than John Holmes USA Today Sex comedies usually focus on the pursuit of orgasm the writer Matt Fraction and the artist Chip Zdarsky have devised an ingenious one about the stillness that follows it Zdarsky s fluid brightly hued artwork is dense with smutty gags but this is a deeper understated comedy than it initially seems The New York Times Wildly imaginative randy and true with characters whose sexual satisfaction freezes time and facilitates crime Artist Zdarsky s staging storytelling and character designs make this even crazier Great fun The Miami Herald A sex comedy with a splash of crime thriller the title is a fascinating examination of the pleasures and pitfalls of intimate relationships using the central fantastic conceit as a metaphor for the way sex distances people but also under the right circumstances brings them together The A. V Club I wouldn t trust most comic creators to turn a sexual awakening into compelling pulp fiction but Fraction and Zdarsky pull it off masterfully PASTE Sex Criminals is just amazing If this isn t on your pull list you have to get it io9 Sex Criminals is not just one of the best comics I ve ever read it s one of the best things I ve ever read period Wil Wheaton actor The best debut of 2013 RollingStone Sex Criminals Complete EditionHow he got started in comics In 1983 when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City Mo. Education and first job Fraction never graduated from college He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture. But that gig led Fraction and his co workers to split off and launch MK12 a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the openin How he got started in comics In 1983 when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City Mo. Education and first job Fraction never graduated from college He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture. But that gig led Fraction and his co workers to split off and launch MK12 a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. Big break While writing and directing live action shoots at MK12 Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic Con Two books sold The Last of the Independents published in 2003 by AiT Planet Lar and Casanova published in 2006 by Image Comics. Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots Then his wife got pregnant So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full time comic book writer. Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006 thanks largely to the success of his other two comics I got very lucky he half joked If it hadn t worked out I would have had to move back in with my parents 2009 site_link Alex Pham Los Angeles Times site_link There s never been a Freudian sci fi story That premise I think will go further for some than honestly it did for me and while I really enjoyed a lot of the science fiction elements and characterization the sense of humor and the way conflict resolved itself felt thin and boring Was a bit disappointed for how good the core elements and the complex relationships are It had all the right pieces but didn t feel like enough time was spent on the draft to sharpen the writing to the level I know Matt Fraction has Maybe I should reread Hawkeye though and see if I m not perhaps overhyping him in my head Kindle Edition I came hehe to Sex Criminals expecting a fairly linear story of a straightforward bank robbery that would give way to a complicated criminal underworld involving sex based superpowers Instead I got a psychotherapeutic exploration of the nature of kinks and fetishism and their acceptance among peers and partners Jon and Suze are definitely damaged individuals and it was refreshing to see their flaws presented as such as opposed to most protagonists where their flaws are their defining characteristics not something to be worked on See Bruce Wayne who should ve sought therapy instead of a black leather batsuit This is probably most telling in the ending where they don t actually end up together sometimes the healthiest thing for a relationship is for it to end However I will say I don t think the story quite gets over the male gaze women back accommodations for male fetishism than vice versa Despite Ana having a very well written monologue about how men feel a need to conquer the idea of their partner as opposed to the reality. I was going to write how I thought the story had some stumbling blocks around the mid point of the series especially because at times it looks like Jon and Suze and their extended crew are preparing for all out sex war only for it to fizzle out and shift perspective elsewhere to other characters even But after some consideration I see that was done because it s not a story about war and conflict it s about love and acceptance. On the topic of sex sometimes the build up is better than the payoff and that s definitely how I felt in the back end of this series Some characters turn on an absolute dime to change teams only for it to be relatively meaningless in the end game only serving to give them a happily ever after I don t think was deserved Even Badal s motivations and schemes seem to spring up from nowhere where I would ve preferred them to be peppered through the whole series as aside to the main plot of Jon and Suze Kabal really did feel like a generic villain from a big 2 comic not quite in keeping with the themes of the comic. To give Fraction and Zdarsky their dues I can t imagine this was an easy pitch to Image but they certainly steered the ship well Despite their obvious enjoyment for puns and background humour it never undermines the serious points of sexual identity and acceptable of the story I think of how Preacher s message of judge the content of the man and not the colour of his skin is often undercut by the liberal use of slurs in the dialogue The way Matt and Chip also pepper in their own cameos is an interesting peep behind the writer s curtain but I feel like I could ve done with one less than what we got For instance I would ve liked to see the dialogue in Suze s argument with Ana. Overall I m glad I experienced this book as it did get me thinking about acceptance and sexual representation in the medium Kindle Edition Super enjoyable and surprise surprise Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky can write amazing characters My main problem is this would have worked a lot better if it was stretched out There was a LOT of jumping around and the ending didn t feel fully earned because of it Felt like the writers didn t truly know how to finish the book But I loved the world and the characters so much that it didn t bother me It s a bittersweet ending especially the epilogue but it s beautiful Kindle Edition I shouldn t have read the compilation I should have read them individually so I d have a higher book count Oh well. I really liked this I laughed I cried I got horny I think it contained good depictions of OCD ODD and getting help not getting help for those I think the characters were flawed in all the ways people are flawed but they tried to take responsibility for their slutshaming and other issues Would recommend but only if you re ok with the EX rating Kindle Edition This full series collection is good for having everything together digitally helped me save on Hoopla monthly borrows If I were to go back in time and talk to my previous self through a method in which month younger me could actually hear current me and not say through an orgasm driven flow state of pure energy I might suggest to my former self to try the individual trade volumes first to see if I like them before committing to the whole thing. It s good though it s very good It s hard to describe I might as well not even try because you ll basically just have to read it yourself if sex comedy drama comics sound good to you It starts better than it finishes but that s kind of the point isn t it Kindle Edition

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. S invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event Ive always been story driven telling stories with pictures and words he said: S invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event I ve always been story driven telling stories with pictures and words he said, Say what It was terrifying said Fraction who now lives in Portland Ore I was married We had a house We had a baby coming And I just quit my job: Suze s confrontation with Kuber Badal isn t borne out of some sense of justice It s her attempt to make peace with her own past. he became fascinated by the U.My mother was not happy about that he said. he became fascinated by the U.My mother was not happy about that he said