Staff Pick
Sex Criminals is hard to explain, but the gist is that two people who stop time when they orgasm find that they have the same power and fall in love. Their attempts to save a beloved library from being foreclosed on involves both bank robberies and sex cops, and despite the high-octane absurdity, these story lines manage to delve into serious issues like mental illness and slut-shaming in empathetic and powerful ways. If you want something that has the capacity to make you laugh out loud while also providing super fun, insightful, and sex-positive narratives, you won't do better. Recommended By Cosima C., Powells.com
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Sex Criminals #1-5
Suzie's just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we'd ALL do: rob a couple banks. A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here!
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Synopsis
-Great fun - - The Miami Herald
Named one of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels for 2013
Suzie's just a regular gal with an irregular gift: when she has sex, she stops time. One day she meets Jon and it turns out he has the same ability. And sooner or later they get around to using their gifts to do what we'd ALL do: rob a couple banks.
A bawdy and brazen sex comedy for comics begins here, by Matt Fraction (Satellite Sam, Hawkeye) and Chip Zdarsky (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops).
-On the surface, this is a hilarious story of two people, Suzanne and Jon, with the power to stop time after they orgasm, and then rob banks while (almost) everyone else is frozen in time, which is an amazingly original idea. But underneath that, this is a story of the beginning of a relationship: its exciting newness, its terrifying possibilities, its ups and downs, its secrets and understandings, and, of course, its sex.- - PW
Synopsis
"Great fun " - The Miami Herald
Named one of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels for 2013
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