The Last Days of American Crime #2

Written by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini

The first issue of this series was interesting, but I found that Remender didn't do as good a job as he could have explaining some aspects of the general concept, especially with regards to the American Peace Initiative.  This issue, however, is just about perfect.  This is a comic about bad people doing bad things to each other, and it's pretty much glorious.

Graham is working his last big job, and although he knows he can't trust his two partners on the heist, he can't resist getting closer to Shelby.  Kevin, her boyfriend, is using his last days before the API signal makes it impossible to commit a crime to settle some old scores, and to visit his family.  Actually, there are a lot of people out to settle scores, and Graham is visited by his former partner, who he attempted to burn to death at the beginning of the first issue.

Pretty much everyone loves a good heist movie, and the way in which the scheme is laid out is quite entertaining.  Graham works at the bank they are going to be robbing, so he has some access to places most people couldn't get to. I particularly like the way in which he decides to deal with his superior on the security detail.

This is a nice, meaty book with fantastic art.  The $5 dollar format that Radical has gone with is a winner in my eyes, and this is the best book Remender has written since the early days of Fear Agent.  If you like his Marvel stuff even just a little bit, you'll be impressed by what he is doing here.