"Criminal" is a series of knife-sharp, noir-tinged tales about the people who live on the wrong side of the law. In "Coward", the first storyline, pickpocket Leo — a man who always leaves himself a way out — finds himself in over his head when he's dragged into a dangerous heist, and winds up getting too close to a burnt-out former junkie. Torn between his instinct to run and his emotions, can he stay out of harm's way?

By award-winning writer Ed Brubaker ("Gotham Central") and acclaimed artist Sean Phillips ("Marvel Zombies"), this gritty take on society's underbelly has been critically acclaimed and a commercial smash — it'd be criminal to miss it!