First Look: Five Gears in Reverse Puts Criminal Back on the Road With Love, Trouble, and No Brakes!

WEPA! Crime comics fans, tighten the seatbelt because Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are back in the getaway car, and Five Gears in Reverse is coming in like noir thunder with no brakes, no apologies, and nothing but trouble in the rearview. This all-new Criminal graphic novel dives into Ricky Lawless, one of the series’ most complicated, broken, dangerous characters, as a mob debt, a crime spree, and a wild love story with Mallory all crash together in pure Brubaker/Phillips fashion.

Hitting local comic shops Wednesday, May 27, this is the kind of hard-boiled release that reminds everybody why Criminal still runs the streets.

Five Gears in Reverse original graphic novel (ISBN: 9781534333208, Lunar Code 1225IM0263) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, May 27 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, June 23.

Unfinished Tales hardcover (ISBN: 9781534330122) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, November 11 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, December 8.