Sex Criminals #69

Sex Criminals (Single Issues)

by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (Artist)

FINAL ISSUE! SERIES FINALE in which we skip ahead 39 issues and check in with how it all ends up a few years down the line. SPOILERS: pretty okay?

Genres: Comics, Comic Book

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 28, 2020

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

[Chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I mean don't get me wrong, but why?
Why spend years writing about this electricity between two characters to then have them not end up together- ya ya thats life and it sucks but I MEAN COMMON. Books are for the exceptions, the perfect scenario, the happy ending (LITERALLY!!!)

Im going to go bitch some more to myself and imagine an alternate ending to this.

K thx for listening to my TED talk.

[Camilla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unabashedly one of the best comic book series I have ever read, and certainly the most human one.

A wonderful exploration of human sexuality and the chaos that ensues from it.

Highly recommended.

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sooo... I was pretty bummed to see Jon and Suzie not together in this issue. But I suppose that's.... realistic? And it does end with the smallest hint that they'll be back together, eventually. So this issue doesn't add much to my emotional catharsis from the previous "last" issue, and I'm honestly trying not to let it take away from that previous feeling. But the best part of this issue was the meta-commentary, and the letters page. Seeing how this series meant so much to so many people, just like it did to me, was beautiful. Then, after reading the piles of emotional letters, I randomly flipped to the exact middle of the book, and saw the gay couple's wedding vows. And I realized that they were the same thing that people had been saying about the book. That it made them laugh, happily, gave them hope, and helped them through dark times. That's a smart scene, and made me appreciate the issue that much more.

Thank you Matt and Chip, for this roller coaster of a series.

[Hung]

I read Sex Criminals issue 30 over six weeks ago. I don't remember all the details of what happened except that it was great.

So that brings me to the reason for the existence of this coda issue. Is it just to give the reader a happier ending? Not much really happened here. They could have tacked it on the previous issue. Definitely does not justify the wait.

[Jack · Rating 2 out of 5]

The series finale wrapped things up more or less satisfactorily, so an epilogue winds up feeling unnecessary. I’m glad people seem to get a lot out of this series but pretty much past the first TPB or two I lost interest and just kept hoping it would get better. It didn’t, but I guess it kept me interested enough to see it through to the end, so there’s that.

[Selva · Rating 2 out of 5]

No perro, descarto este final y me quedo con el 39
Suzie y Jon forever ❤️