This clocks me in at four reviews for Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Sex Criminals, and ifmy adoration for this title isn't already clear, I must not bedoing this right. There are three volumes available in paperback which will get you all caught up, and if Fraction and Zdarsky are to be believed(and I'm sure they are), then for this arc, each month there'll be a new Sex Criminals. Or buy it all digitally, I don't really care. Just read it and enjoy. (Disclaimer: Adults Only. Seriously.) Read Full Review

Never leave us again, Sex Criminals. There was a huge gap in my pull list for the type of emotional resonance and laugh-out-loud humor that only this book can provide, and its return issue for the first time in months lives up to the series' own lofty expectations and then some. Read Full Review

With so many books coming out (and having to review them, no less) there's just something about Sex Criminals that puts you on notice. It's a book that doesn't rely on heavy action (unless we count pounding the yams) and is far above the bar in its uniqueness. Read Full Review

When you find yourself going through every panel of the recap, going through every page twice to take it all in, and reading every word of the back-matter pages, you know you are holding a really special comic. Read Full Review

Sex Criminals#16 reminded me of why I loved this series when it first started out in 2013, which is Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's complete honesty about sex and relationships while still having some hilarious background gags from Zdarsky and an eccentric supporting cast, like the Alix who compares Jon to Don Quixote, and villains. Read Full Review

Honestly, you could pick up any issue of sex crims and be completely blown away. However, here, you'll get as close to perfection as you can, and still be eased in. Read Full Review

At the end of the day if you are like me you are looking for a break from the brightly colored underpants on the outside crowd the you won't need to look far. Sex Criminals is a hip, and very cleverly written gem that you'd be thrilled you took a flyer on. Read Full Review

I was really interested in the way the story came out" as mentioned, it's tricky in this day and age to come up with a new "power" and perhaps even harder to create an origin of that "power". By marrying the "power" to sex Matt has given himself instant marketing bonus points but he's also shown that sex in comics doesn't always simply mean gratuitous nudity and hanky panky (though there is plenty of that too), that sex is just a part of the flow of the story and really creates an opportunity to look at intimate relationships without it being just a weak tacked on element to the story. But there's a big bonus to Sex Criminals" the letters page" there's a wealth of fan content there with responses from the creators themselves that are often hilarious. Read Full Review

Overall, Im so glad this book is back! Its so different than anything else I pick up. Its a book all about human relationships, sexuality, and chock fill of as many sex puns as humanly possible. Its pretty much the best. This issue took a lot of time to focus in on Jon and Suzies relationship and it laid a good foundation for the rest of the arc yet to come *insert pun here* Read Full Review

Suze and Jon's relationship continues to mature, sharing the not-so-sexy realities of making an adult relationship work. But hiatus or not, Jon's psych files in the hands of Kegelface is too big a thread to be ignored. Read Full Review

This was a big issue that caught readers up to everything in the opening 8-9 pages, which was really helpful, because I am a monthly comic reader, and I forgot stuff over the eight months this was missing. What I remembered, or was delighted to have the book remind me of, was how charming and funny and fun this comic can be--anytime I put a comic down for a break because I am laughing is a good sign. This was a really, really good comic, sexy, funny, propelling the plot forward, always aware of propelling Jon and Suzie's characterization forward. Good fucking stuff. Oh, and the Fiona Staples cover is crazy.

So glad this book is back!

I have a love/hate relationship with this comic. I love the story in and of itself, but hate it when Fraction/Zdarsky just start patting themselves in the back with how witty their meta-commentary is.



Luckily, they kept the meta-commentary to the recap pages and out of the actual story... and hope they can keep it like that, because that's what I hated from the previous arc.