From Rick Remender, the critically acclaimed writer of Punisher. 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 Brick, a career criminal never quite able to hit the big score. In a grand scheme, 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.
Date Available: 12/23/2009
BONUS REVIEW by MATT STREETS
Radical Comics drops their best book yet with Last Days of American Crime
#1, a fresh, vivid take on crime comics, and a decent bargain in the
process, 64 lushly illustrated pages for $4.99. Rick Remender writes
and Greg Tocchini draws this tale of a futuristic USA where crime is
about to be permanently eradicated through a government created
“frequency” that will cease all illicit thoughts and urges in the
populace. I found this to be like a mixture of DMZ and Criminal, filled
with enough sex, violence and intrigue to bring me back for issue two.
Highly recommended!
