Our latest Popular Last Week looks at the comedic side of crime. From dark humor to criminals being bad at crime, these series are a must-read blend of genres and themes.
Deadly Class, 1664 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft.
Story and Art by Jordan Boyd, Lee Loughridge, Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Wesley Craig
Headcases, 8 pages - Published by AJ O. Mason, (cc/ @ajomasonwriter)
It’s a routine morning subway ride to school in New York, circa 1999. Hila and Ramon, two bored teens, steal a man’s bag on a whim. When they eventually manage to lose the stranger, Hila opens the bag and can’t believe what she’s seeing inside: there is a severed head! Thus begins the zany chain of events where a trained hitman, an FBI agent, and others are hunting the teens down to get the head back!
Story and Art by AJ O. Mason
Palmiotti and Brady's The Big Con Job, 116 pages - Published by BOOM! Studios, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
After working the same convention circuit for decades, a ragtag group of flabby action heroes, aging sex symbols, and sci-fi bit players become close friends as they watch their lines get shorter and their autographs get cheaper. That is, until they hire a cocky new booking agent who offers them their only chance at a comfortable retirement: robbing one of the largest cons in the country! Collects the complete limited series.
Story and Art by Domo Stanton, Jimmy Palmiotti, Matt Brady
Sham Comics, 461 pages - Published by Source Point Press, (cc/ @TravisM)
Did you ever wonder what happens when copyrights run out? In this case, it means irreverent cartoonist, Tim Fuller, can take public domain funny books from the 40s and 50s and rewrite them with hilarious results. New stories for you, the hip, cynical reader. (You know who you are.) This Issue #features a malfunctioning robot out to destroy the human race, a cryptic warning from beyond the grave,...
Story and Art by Tim Fuller
LIFESTEAL, 71 pages - Published by Midori Jen, (cc/ @MidoriJen)
After getting a promotion, Myoga Kohana finally gets to lead his own police department, but something about this promotion seems fishy... Especially after getting a file cointaining a 'secret case'. The young detective is determined to solve said case no matter what... morality is a subjective matter after all.
Story and Art by Midori Jen
Jinx Freeze, 132 pages - Published by Avery Hill Publishing, (cc/ @AveryHillPublishing)
Crime has descended on the normally tranquil riviera - a solid gold sculpture on loan from the Gurgleheim Museum has been stolen and the local police force are well out of their depth. They need help and they need it fast. Told through the twisted creative lens of Hurk in his long-awaited full-length technicolour debut, Jinx Freeze is a heist story unlike any you've read before!
Story and Art by Lord Hurk
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