In 2009, Coward, Lawless and The Dead and the Dying were reprinted as a 432-page "Deluxe Edition" hardcover. A fourth series followed in 2011, which ran for four issues, and was collected as The Last of the Innocent (2011). A third series ran for five issues in 2009-2010, and was collected as The Sinners (2010). Issues #4-7 were collected as Bad Night (issues #4-7, 2009). The first three issues, overlapping stories from the points of view of three characters involved in organized crime in the 1970s, were collected as The Dead and the Dying (issues #1-3, 2008). A second series began in February 2008, and ran for seven issues. In Lawless, AWOL soldier Tracy Lawless infiltrates his brother Ricky's former gang to find out who murdered Ricky. In Coward, pickpocket Leo Patterson gets involved in an armored car heist that is not what it seems. The first series began in October 2006, and ran for ten issues, which were published as two trade paperback editions, Coward (issues #1-5) and Lawless (issues #6-10), in 2007. The series is a meditation on the clichés of the crime genre while remaining realistic and believable. It was originally published by Marvel Comics' Icon imprint and later by Image Comics. Criminal is a creator-owned comic book series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips.
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