Reviews

Criminal, Vol. 4: Bad Night by Ed Brubaker

alexcarbonneau's review

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

duparker's review

4.0

A bit of a jumble compared to the first two arcs. Overall enjoyable.

arbaazk1999's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

dee9401's review

1.0

Where Fatale had a cool storyline, developed characters, and great art, Bad Night only has empty characters, violence for fun, and sleaze without need.

howiedoowinfam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

rltinha's review

5.0

(Não terá sido por acaso que, num certo MOOC sobre comics que frequentei, um dos painéis escolhidos para análise foi retirado deste volume.)
Um clássico, este Criminal.
A dupla Brubaker/Phillips vem dando bastas pérolas noir às varas consumidoras de arte sequencial. Tenho dito.

krystofsubr's review

5.0

Fucking incredible. Incredibly engaging filled with great twists, interesting characters and bad decisions. Sean Phillips´s art is beautiful. Can´t wait to read the rest of this series.

shannonli1026's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

3.5

haseki_sultana's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

cmcrockford's review

4.0

Great crime fiction and noir is rooted in this obsession with original sin, predestination: there was no other way this could have gone because of how it all started, because of who you are, what you did. It is the most fatalistic genre, but still tied most distinctly to action, choice. There's agency here but that was warped and twisted long ago. Brubaker and Philips know how to use their stories to walk their characters backwards, to see how a relationship, murder, or situation really started because of the unspeakable truths, the bad things we do to each other. Bad Night is no exception: there's a bit here that seems like a smart literary technique and nod to newspaper comics, and then it slowly becomes something darker buried in the main character's mind. When it's exposed it's chilling stuff, and it loops beautifully, elegantly back to what was before. In noir, we are left with what we do here on this earth. Nothing else.