Criminal #6

The sixth volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's celebrated noir series arrives in this French-language Delcourt edition, subtitled Le Dernier des Innocents. Sean Phillips's cover is a study in cold dread — a dark-haired woman rendered in stark blue tones lies sprawled against a white background, vivid crimson splattered around her in a way that leaves little to the imagination. It's the kind of image that reminds you why Criminal has earned its reputation as one of the sharpest crime comics of its era.