The Last Days of American Crime, Book 1 [Paperback]

Rick Remender (Author), Greg Tocchini (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2010

In the not-too-distant future as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. To keep this from the public, the government creates a distraction, installing a new currency system using digital charge cards.
 
Enter: Graham Bricke. A career criminal never quite able to hit the big score, Graham intends to steal one of the charging stations, skip the country and live off unlimited funds for the rest of his life. But the media has leaked news of the anti-crime signal one week before it was to go live...and now Graham and his team have just a few days to turn the crime of the century into the last crime in American history.

Editorial Reviews

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"A winning plot, hard-as-nails dialog and art by Greg Tocchini that packs a gut punch..." -Ain't It Cool News

"The Last Days of American Crime is addictive, leaving the reader twitching for their next fix..." -Comics Bulletin

About the Author

Rick Remender is the writer/creator of comics such as Fear Agent, The End League, Strange Girl, Black Heart Billy, Sea of Red, Sorrow, Night Mary, XXXOMBIES, Gigantic and Doll and Creature. He is the current writer of Marvel's Punisher and has also served as writer on DC's Booster Gold and The Atom.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Radical Pub (January 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935417088
• ISBN-13: 978-1935417088
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,609,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #86 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Graphic Novels > Mystery

More About the Author

Rick Remender is the writer/creator of comics such as Fear Agent, The End League, Strange Girl, Black Heart Billy, Last Days of American Crime, Sea of Red, Sorrow, Night Mary, XXXombies and Doll and Creature. He is also the writer of Marvel's Uncanny X-Force, Punisher, and Venom.

Outside of comics he has served as lead writer on EA/EPIC/PCF's Bulletstorm game and was a writer on the Electronic Arts hit game Dead Space . Prior to this, Remender served as an animator on films such as The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Titan A.E., and Rocky and Bullwinkle.

During his time wrist grinding as an artist Rick penciled books such as The Last Christmas, Bruce Campbell's Man with the Screaming Brain and numerous issues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles while also inking books such as The Avengers and The Terminator . He has provided album covers and art for bands such as NOFX, 3 Inches of Blood, Lagwagon and No Use for a Name. He also taught storyboarding, animation and comic art at San Francisco's Academy of Art University for many years.

He and his tea-sipping wife, Danni, currently reside in Portland with their beautiful new baby girl, imminent baby boy and a monster known only as Lester Magoo.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is not Book 1!!!, March 25, 2011

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Carlos - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Days of American Crime, Book 1 (Paperback)

In fact, this is the complete 3-part series published by Radical. This is not the "Book 1" but all the 3 issues of the mini-series. You do not need to buy the so called "books 2 and 3" which are the second and third part of the series and are part of this "bbok 1".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, violent and gorgeous, June 9, 2010

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Mr. Garrigue Christophe (Strasbourg,France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Last Days of American Crime, Book 1 (Paperback)

Rick Remender tells the story of desperate people willing to do whatever it takes to indulge their vices one final time. Heath Hudson from Fear Agent (Fear Agent Vol. 1: Re-Ignition (v. 1)) - the best known book by Remender - was a flawed hero who had difficulty to accept his own guilt. Here the characters are unapologetic villains who seem to have no moral although we start to see some cracks in the second issue.

Contrary to some other artists working on books published by Radical where the art is static, Greg Tocchini is a real comic-book artist who knows how to create dynamic panels. I only knew Tocchini for his art on Ion (Ion (Book 1): The Torchbearer (Green Lantern)) where he was paired with an inker and a colorist. Here he is drawing and painting himself and the result is absolutely amazing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid crime fiction, February 4, 2011

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Ekko "ekko" (arlington, va) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Last Days of American Crime, Book 1 (Paperback)

If you're looking for Remender's Marvel/Punisher style work, this isn't for you. It's a gruesome, violent futuristic crime story. But if you like crime comics, this is one of the best of last year. Very, very good.