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Sex Criminals Volume 1: One Weird Trick Paperback – Illustrated, April 16, 2014
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Named one of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels for 2013!
Suzie's just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we'd ALL do: rob a couple banks.
A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here, by Matt Fraction (Satellite Sam, Hawkeye) and Chip Zdarsky (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops).
"On the surface, this is a hilarious story of two people, Suzanne and Jon, with the power to stop time after they orgasm, and then rob banks while (almost) everyone else is frozen in time, which is an amazingly original idea. But underneath that, this is a story of the beginning of a relationship: its exciting newness, its terrifying possibilities, its ups and downs, its secrets and understandings, and, of course, its sex." - PW
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherImage Comics
- Publication dateApril 16, 2014
- Reading age16 years and up
- Dimensions6.3 x 0.2 x 9.9 inches
- ISBN-101607069466
- ISBN-13978-1607069461
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Chip Zdarsky is the current writer of Batman for DC Comics (somehow). For Image Comics he’s the writer of Newburn and the writer/illustrator of the award-winning Public Domain.
His previous work includes an acclaimed run on Daredevil and Spider-Man: Life Story for Marvel, and he’s the illustrator of Image Comics’ Sex Criminals—an Eisner Award winning series and New York Times Bestseller (despite all the penis jokes).
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- Publisher : Image Comics (April 16, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1607069466
- ISBN-13 : 978-1607069461
- Reading age : 16 years and up
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.3 x 0.2 x 9.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #264,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #325 in Literary Graphic Novels (Books)
- #353 in Image Comics & Graphic Novels
- #1,281 in Science Fiction Graphic Novels (Books)
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MATT FRACTION writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, the writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and stags. Surely there is a metaphor there? He is 42 years old and everyone he went to high school with is dead now probably.
He won the first-ever PEN USA Literary Award for Graphic Novels; he, or comics he's a part of, have won Eisners, Harveys, and Eagles, which are like the Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes of comic books, and all seem about as likely. He's a New York Times-best-selling donkus of comics like SEX CRIMINALS (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series, the 2014 Harvey Award for Best New Series, and named TIME Magazine's Best Comic of 2013), SATELLITE SAM, ODY-C, HAWKEYE (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Single Issue), wrote the longest consecutive run when re relaunced THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (2010 Eiser Award winner for Best New Series) with Salvador Larocca and, oh, lordy, so many more.
Coming in 2018 will be ADVENTUREMAN! with Terry and Rachel Dodson and NOVEMBER with Elsa Charretier from Image Comics.
Under their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc., Fraction and DeConnick are currently developing television for NBC/Universal.
Straight up? I've never been scared of spiders. You come at me with a rubber spider and I'll just be, like, "so what."
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Suzie is a smart and attractive young woman with a host of problems. She lost her parents at too early of an age. She's working at a library that is soon to be torn down in the way of 21st century progress. And she can make time stop when she has an orgasm.
Wait... what?
Yes, you read that right. Suzie can stop time when she has an orgasm; something she discovered as a teenager. In this space she calls "The Quiet", time stands still around her for a few minutes. She uses this as an escape from the pain and drudgery of her ordinary life. And this also led to her believing that sex with a partner would always produce this. But after too many unsatisfying attempts, she's given up on that belief. Cue Jon, a smart and handsome young man who Suzie has more in common with than she knows. He's in a dead-end job as a lowly office peon. Both of them are similarly disaffected by life, and both of them are extremely charming. When Suzie has sex with Jon, she discovers that she's not the only one with this gift. Jon has it too, but he doesn't call it "The Quiet". He calls it... well, he calls it something that decorum prohibits me from mentioning here. They have no choice now but to fall in love with one another. They're just too damn adorable as a couple. And they use this ability to just have some general fun initially in the local sex shop, but Jon begins to formulate a plan to alleviate Suzie's frustration with the impending closing of the library where she works: Go into "The Quiet" and rob banks. But it only stands to reason that if Suzie and Jon have this ability, others have it too, and have taken it upon themselves to police others who possess this gift.
One of the most extraordinary things about this book is how it manages to be both astoundingly hilarious and surprisingly touching. Much of the humor is derived from the absurd sight gags that Zdarsky's art provides, but a lot of it also comes from the book's honesty. There's a great moment where Jon shows Suzie the picture of the porn actress he fantasized about while discovering his gift and the picture comes alive to Suzie, explaining how her career was her choice and she shouldn't be judged for it, which was a winning moment. SEX CRIMINALS doesn't try to shame anyone. Not its characters (except maybe when Jon uses his time-stoppage to defecate in the office's plants), and especially not its readers. A centerpiece moment of the comic so far is a huge song-and-dance routine where Fraction and Zdarsky were hoping to get the rights to the lyrics for Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" but didn't, so each word bubble is blanked out with the writer's apologies for not getting the rights. It's mentioned a lot when people discuss this comic, and rightly so. It's a huge stand-out moment so far, and it works better for the lack of the lyrics. If they had gotten them, the anarchic joy of this sequence would be lessened.
Oh, before I forget, this book is IN NO WAY for young kids. While there's no "graphic" (and by "graphic", I mean this isn't a hentai book) sexual goings-on, this is definitely for older readers.
Fraction is one of only a few writers that I've loved, then was impartial about, and then loved even harder. I loved his early work for Marvel, with books like the aforementioned IMMORTAL IRON FIST, as well as the short-lived PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL and THE ORDER. But once he started getting really successful, he wrote the main books for the "event" series FEAR ITSELF, and the really interesting but perhaps too high-concept reboot of THE DEFENDERS. But as soon as he started writing HAWKEYE, he was in the zone he'd started with IRON FIST, but so much more so. And now, with SEX CRIMINALS, he's at the very top of his game. There aren't many books I buy regularly, but now two of them are written by Fraction. Zdarsky is an artist that I was wholly unfamiliar with prior to this book, but his deep defining lines and penchant for gleeful insanity make this book work at the level it does, showing that we seem to be in a new golden age of comic artists, despite the fact that most of them are either doing independent comics or major-label books with an indie feel.
The title of the comic is meant to be provocative, and it will instantly turn off people who think that this is somehow going to be a comic about sex crimes, where it's anything but. There's crime in the book, and there's sex in the book, but it doesn't get to the levels of grotesquerie produced by something like LAW AND ORDER: SVU.
If this sounds like it's not your cup of tea, stay away. But for those of you who are comfortable enough to go down *aheh* the road this book travels, you are going to be blown *ahem* away by SEX CRIMINALS.
As you quickly learn from the description, the man and the woman in the novel stop time when they orgasm. They decide to use this skill for nefarious purposes, although they mean well. This description doesn't do justice to the novel.
The first part of the novel describes the adolescence of Suzie's, the female character. When she starts to evolve sexually she had no idea what is happening. Or that stopping time is not something that other people do as well. Like anyone else with non-vanilla sexuality, she tries to understand what is happening. Until she meets Jon, she thinks that she is alone. Some of the force of the attraction between Jon and Suzie is the idea that they are not alone. Their budding romance is charming, although its clear that there are some serious bumps as well. Jon turns out to be someone with his own demons, although none are particularly evil.
The rest of the plot is somewhat wacky. Jon and Suzie are not really cut out for any serious rule breaking. The novel ends before without any particular resolution and I immediately ordered the second volume. The third one is on the way.
As a young girl Suzie discovers that when she orgasms she can stop time. Who wouldn’t want to stop time? Think of all the things you could do! But she’s not sure that this is normal and as time goes on, she begins to learn that this isn’t so. But she lives her life and this is just her normal.
Now that she’s older, she works for the local library that is about to be foreclosed on. How? Why? We don’t really know. She decides to throw a party to bring awareness to the “Save The Books” campaign she is running and meets Jon. Guess what though- Jon has the same ability to stop time.
As the two learn to navigate their coupled ability they come up with a plan to rob the bank. Yes, rob. The. Bank. The bank doesn’t need the money and they’ll get it back eventually because Jon and Suzie will use the money to save the library. It’s a win-win for everyone, right? Wrong.
With their plan discovered by a “sex police” the duo are taken and now they don’t know what to do. They always thought they were the only ones who could stop time and now there’s a police force? Who knows what’s in store for Suzie and Jon now.
Sex Criminals, despite it’s fantastical elements, is about two characters who are trying to navigate relationships and life in general. We see them day in and day out living their lives, doing what they love, and trying to bear what they don’t.
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Its funny and its pretty human, I love the characters so much in this story because they remind me of situations in my own life and relationships. Plus lots of dildo talk. I laughed out loud many times while reading this book and found myself re-telling the stories to many of my friends.
If you haven't heard of this series and want to dip your toes in, this is the best place to start. However, if you are already a fan of the series and want a great collected edition, I would skip this and go for the 'Big Hard Sex Criminals' hard cover edition that contains more content in a nicer format.