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<\/a><\/div>\nIn the most two recent newsletters, sent out\u00a0July 13th<\/a> and August 27th<\/a>, Ed Brubaker has announced the next project for the team — more CRIMINAL, we’re quite happy to report, in a “CHRISTMAS SPECIAL magazine,” with the (initial) cover shown below.<\/p>\n Our good friend Greg just shared with us screenshots from the digital Image Scene<\/i>, announcing a slightly different comic book due in December, and they’re worth sharing.<\/p>\n The news got us scouring the Internet for more info, and AIPT is apparently the first site to have published Image’s December solicitations<\/a>, The solicit is below, duplicating the information shown in the issue of Image Scene,<\/i>\u00a0and emphasis is ours.<\/p>\n GIANT-SIZE CRIMINAL #1<\/p>\n WRITER: Ed Brubaker<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n ARTIST: Sean Phillips<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n COVER A: Sean Phillips<\/span><\/p>\n COVER B: Marcos Mart\u00edn<\/span><\/p>\n COVER C: Duncan Fegredo 1:10<\/span><\/p>\n COVER D: J.H. Williams III 1:25<\/span><\/p>\n 2025-12-03<\/p>\n 48<\/p>\n FC (full color)<\/p>\n M-Mature<\/p>\n $5.99<\/p>\n THE FIRST NEW CRIMINAL SINGLE ISSUE IN OVER FIVE YEARS ARRIVES ON THE EVE OF THE STREAMING TV SERIES PREMIERE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This oversized, annual-style issue<\/span> is packed with everything CRIMINAL fans love from BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS\u2014and much more. Headlining the issue is a novella-length story starring fan-favorite character RICKY LAWLESS<\/span> (a major player in the upcoming TV adaptation) as he goes solo on his latest heist\u2014what could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n But that\u2019s just the beginning, you\u2019ll also get:<\/p>\n This GIANT SIZE CRIMINAL one-shot<\/span> is the perfect entry point for new readers<\/span>\u2014and just in time for X-mas, it\u2019s an even better stocking-stuffer for the diehard Brubaker and Phillips fan in your life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Exclusively in print and only available at comic shops<\/span>\u2014our way of saying thanks to retailers!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As we have documented in the team’s extensive\u00a0bibliography<\/a>, the last single-issue release was Criminal Volume 3 #12, the conclusion to Cruel Summer that was released in January 2020.\u00a0 Since then, the only “floppy” releases have been in late 2022 — the $1 Neo-Noir “trailer” collection and the team’s contribution to the Image! anthology #9, the cover story featuring Teeg Lawless in a twisted Christmas tale.<\/p>\n (We wonder if that Christmas story and this upcoming novella will end up being collected in the same trade paperback: two holiday stories, one with Teeg Lawless and the other with his ne’er-do-well son Ricky.\u00a0 We think it’s almost certain they’ll both appear in the next deluxe hardcover.)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n\n
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