Bad Night

Jacob's bad night has just started, and his journey into Hell is full of the twists and turns that have earned Brubaker and Phillips two Eisner Awards in a row. I don't want to spoil the beans on who does what to whom, but be prepared for a classic tale of lust and betrayal, a game of cops and robbers full of role reversals between the good guys and the bad guys, flashbacks and multiple perspectives that will blend together into a clear picture only with the last panel of the fourth issue. View all 3 comments. Mar 29, Richard rated it it was amazing Recommended to Richard by: Not too long ago, I wrote a review of Brubaker and Phillips's The Dead and the Dying , gushing that it was my favorite volume in the Criminal series that I've read.

Well I'll be damned, here I am saying it again! This volume is not only the best Criminal story so far and one of the best graphic novels I've read to date, but it takes this series to a whole new level, delivering a story of noir so ink-black and classic in it's development that Goodis, Brewer, Cain, Keene, and Thompson would all b Not too long ago, I wrote a review of Brubaker and Phillips's The Dead and the Dying , gushing that it was my favorite volume in the Criminal series that I've read.

This volume is not only the best Criminal story so far and one of the best graphic novels I've read to date, but it takes this series to a whole new level, delivering a story of noir so ink-black and classic in it's development that Goodis, Brewer, Cain, Keene, and Thompson would all be impressed. Bad Night focuses on Jacob Kurtz, the counterfeiter-turned-cartoonist who was a supporting character in Lawless , a loner and insomniac who's quiet life is upended when he meets a sexy, redheaded lush at a late night diner.

To say more about the plot would spoil the unhinged, fascinating ways that this tale of murder, sex, and obsession evolves.

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Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have always been partners in total sync, and Phillip's art here is a perfect fit for this grimy and brooding bit of graphic fiction. If you have any interest in noir or in any dark crime fiction in general, you owe it to yourself to check this out. It's like all your favorite books in these genres, but with pictures! Kurtz in Heart of Darkness , a former counterfeiter, and insomniac, is a cartoonist whose strip, "Frank Kafka, Private Eye," cf.

Franz Kafka appears in the daily paper, something various criminals read in this series.

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His wife died in a tragic car accident sever "The last refuge to the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world"--Leonard Cohen In my rereading of this reprinted series, this is my favorite one so far, fabulous crime comics for noir and comics fans. His wife died in a tragic car accident several years ago. Most people, including a detective, believed he killed her, and one guy crippled him over that belief. When it was clear that he did not kill her, his former father-in-law, crime kingpin Sebastian Hyde, asks him what he would most want to do and he says comics, an answer that comes back to bite him.

A fight ensues, Jacob offers to take Iris home, and it all goes deliciously downhill from there in amusingly predictable but who cares, this is pulp genre-love; predictability is part of the point ways. This couple draws him back into crime, and how. Heist, love triangle, with the detective also involved in a way that rubs Jacob's already bloody nose into the dirt. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to run a satirical portrait of the detective in your comic, Jacob! The real trouble with Jacob's comic is that throughout, Jacob is guided as he proceeds in his decision-making as is Woody Allen is guided by the ghost of Humphrey Bogart in Play It Again, Sam by his one cartoon hero, Frank.

You're a cartoonist, clearly not a criminal mastermind, Jacob! The self-referential Dick Tracy-like comic strip story running through the series is terrific, funny and meaningful. Can it get worse? Or, can it can get any better for comics readers? The best crime comics ever.

I love all the cheesy noir stuff: Yes, you could read this as a standalone. Iris will shoot you if you don't! View all 4 comments. Sep 12, James DeSantis rated it it was amazing. Jacob is a cartoonist who's been through shit.

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But first you start with him just eating at a restaurant one night and BAM this woman gets into a fight with her boyfriend and the owner of the diner knocks the punk out. The girl runs and by chance Jacob finds her on the side of the road and takes her home. From here on, the story just makes so many twist and turns it's hard not to love it.

I really don't want to go int Now this one I really don't want to go into too many details but this story basically focuses on one character. For good and bad. By the end, you are in this character's head, and fuck is it scary. The art is stunning once more. The tale told here is harrowing and dark as fuck but it fits so well.

Whenever there's a moment of happiness it's quickly snatched away and thrown back into the pits of darkness. The background of Jacob is equally as screwed up as the story being told at the present time. By the end I was glued to the story. Overall this is Criminal's strongest story yet.

The ending made me thing. The start got me hooked. The middle was hard to read for how screwed up it was. Overall this is a easy 4. Rounding it to a 5 because it's that good. Aug 04, Brandon rated it really liked it Shelves: Jake spends his days in a waking coma. He walks the streets at night, produces a syndicated comic strip during the day, and grabs sleep when he can.

While he never did kill his wife, he did at one point run a counterfeit ring in his youth, but those days are long behind him. Or so he thought.. After witnessing a young couple fighting Jake spends his days in a waking coma. After witnessing a young couple fighting inside a local diner, Jake takes a shot at an honest-to-goodness good deed and offers one half of the couple — the beautiful and sexy Iris — a lift home.

Fortunately for Jake, the two end up back at his place and after a wild night in bed, he awakes alone. I just had to know what happened next! Bad Night is fearless fiction with a frighteningly fantastic femme fatale. View all 7 comments. Feb 19, Kemper rated it really liked it Shelves: Since he has problems sleeping, he prowls around the city at night. Sitting in his favorite diner, Jake witnesses an altercation between a beautiful woman named Iris and her boyfriend. When the dust settles, Jake tries to take the drunk Iris home, but ends up having a night of crazy sex with her instead.

Anyone who has ever read any type of noir story with a femme fatale knows that things are about to get real ugly for Jake. The real hook in this one is Iris. Many a writer has tried to create a seductive temptress that leads the protagonist down the road to ruin, but few have felt as real, dangerous and completely bat shit crazy as Iris does in this.

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Oct 05, Chad rated it it was amazing. Best volume of the series yet. Brubaker and Phillips really knock it out of the park with this twisty-turvy and just plain twisted gut-punch of a story. Jacob, the counterfeiter from book 2, is back and stars in this tale of deception, kidnapping, murder and lies. Jacob now lives a quiet life drawing a Dick Tracy type comic strip. One night he helps a girl with a douche of a boyfriend out, giving her a ride home. His life descends into hell from there, a hell he can't quite manage to escape.

Jun 19, Cheese rated it it was amazing. This really surprised me And knocked me for 6! Wow, I really wasn't expecting this story. It was like watching fight club for the first, complete head fuck and then wham!! I just wish I had read it years ago. Nov 02, George K. Jul 08, Sam Quixote rated it really liked it.

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A crippled cartoonist helps out an attractive red-head after she has a drunken fight with her boyfriend one night. Would that be the end of it? Not if this is an Ed Brubaker book! The cartoonist winds up in a complex plan involving kidnapping, extortion, murder, betrayal, and madness.

Brubaker's writing is as taut as ever and the plot whirls quickly throughout the book. The strength A crippled cartoonist helps out an attractive red-head after she has a drunken fight with her boyfriend one night. The cartoonist is in fact a minor character from Book 2 but Brubaker has plucked him from a sub-plot back then and given him an entire book here.

It shows the true skill and imagination Brubaker has to do this. Sean Phillips' artwork is nothing short of masterful, as always, but his painted covers are gorgeous to behold. The man does noir like no other and conveys action so perfectly it seems to the reader as if the panels are moving. The "Criminal" series is an utterly involving and brilliant comic book series that is surely ripe for the Hollywood treatment any day now. Meanwhile, we have the comic books themselves which are nothing short of master-classes in comics art.

Oct 19, Jedi JC Daquis rated it it was amazing. I loved reading Bad Night more than the first three volumes. I did not expect the plot twist in the middle of the story, considering that the first three are too predictble. The story is considerable less connected with the world built by the volumes one to three, limited only to character mentions and cameos. You just know that it is part of the Criminal world. Brubaker made it more noir by including am imagimary character, and Sean Phillips did a fine job with drawing him Darwyn Cooke style in I loved reading Bad Night more than the first three volumes.

Brubaker made it more noir by including am imagimary character, and Sean Phillips did a fine job with drawing him Darwyn Cooke style in order to separate him from the real world in the comics. Sep 07, L. This volume follows a troubled cartoonist. The woman is hitchhiking afterwards and the cartoonist ends up picking her up. The story is interesting. I have yet to read anything from Brubaker that I dislike.

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The art is fantastic. Phillips is one of my favorite artists and this volume does a fantastic job showing his art range. Especially the panels that mix 2 art styles which sounds awful but Phillips makes it work! The characters are interesting. Lots of gritty, well drawn, well written and exciting action! This one is suspenseful, just like previous additions to the series.

You never know what will happen next in this series. The narrative is well written. I was surprised that the dialogue was poorly done. Normally Brubaker writes fantastic dialogue for his characters.

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Another unpleasant surprise was how poorly written the sexual stuff is. Characters screaming at each other with extreme anger and fucking 2 panels later. Criminal continues to be an amazing series with a duo that is the peanut butter and chocolate of comics! This volume while having a couple of minor issues is still great and I highly recommend this to almost anyone who is capable of reading.

Jan 10, Jesse A rated it really liked it Shelves: A very good volume in this series. Like a slightly more grounded version of Sin City. Oct 02, C.

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