Sex Criminals #14: Ladies Please

Sex Criminals (Single Issues)

by Matt Fraction

Why can't we all just get along? Because then the comic would be boring.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

23 pages, Unknown Binding

First published February 10, 2016

About the author

"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.

Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.

"My mother was not happy about that," he said.

But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."

Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.

Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.

Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."

Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.

- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like I waited forever for you. *hugs*

[Alexandre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Teoretic trebuia să dorm

[Erik Delgadillo · Rating 2 out of 5]

De nuevo no entiendo a donde se está dirigiendo la historia, aunque me pareció súper original lo de los post-it's y la conversación de los escritores, la historia está detenida desde hace varios números.

[Garrison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Feel like I have no sense of what's happening or where this series is going anymore. It's well drawn but month to month the common threads have started to dissolve.

[b (tobias forge's version) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some truly great meta stuff and an awesome letters section in this issue, but I need the plot to tighten up a bit. Maybe it should do some kegels?

[erika · Rating 5 out of 5]

an issue that will go down in history

[tim apple · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm

[Alondra Nournia · Rating 5 out of 5]

so coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool, i loved its so interesant omgosh yis

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

You know, when I started this comic series I was really really enjoying it, but this latest issues for me was the worst in the series so far. I just can't get into it anymore. (no pun intended)

I didn't like the whole "meta" scene where the describe a scene that they didn't want to write.

I am really debating on whether I want to continue.

[محمود راضي · Rating 4 out of 5]

يااااااااااااااه، منذ أكتوبر الماضي وأنا في انتظار سلسلتنا المباركة تلك لكي تعود مجددًا، وجعبة مات وشيب كالعادة لا تنفذ من الألعاب والسخرية، بل إنهما للمرة الأولى يظهران بأنفسهما في هذا العدد في حوار ساخر ومطول حول ما سيؤول إليه التوتر بين سوزي وآنا.

[Marisa Carpico · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was audacious, but I'm not sure pointing out a writing choice in a meta way necessarily precludes that choice from being interpreted as lazy or self-indulgent. It's a shame they sacrificed adding character depth for cleverness.

[Kurage · Rating 3 out of 5]

They are going meta meta! Also why that cliffhanger in the end? >.<

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid showing. Suzie and Jon are getting back on track. I think...

[Chloe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic as always
Beautiful, random as fuck and just the perfect amount of sex ;P

[Noah · Rating 5 out of 5]

todavía me fascina todas las veces que exista esta cosa y que pueda ser así de inclusiva y de segura para todas las personas y que haya seres humanos tan maravillosos en el mundo

[Harper Sage · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well that got all meta and shit

[Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has a really fun meta-scene in there.

[César Galicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

El metacomentario sobre la gratuidad y banalidad con la cual se suelen abordar el slut-shaming y las peleas entre mujeres motivadas por celos, burla, etc. es una maravilla.

[Holly Letson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I would have rather seen the argument/fight scene than the writer/artist talking.