"Sex Criminals" remains one of the most hugely entertaining ongoing comics series around -- after Volume 2, my anticipation (heh) for the next volume is matched only by my can't-wait eagerness for SAGA.
The series, of course, follows two oddball lovers who discover they share a rare ability to freeze time when they orgasm, allowing them to commit crimes with impunity. Unfortunately, as of the end of Volume 1, they discovered that their meddlings with time are being monitored by a group who share similar abilities: the Sex Police, if you will. If you thought the last book concluded with more of a dead end than a cliffhanger, Fraction & Zdarsky plays with your expectations. A teasing recap/opener admits the seeming plot rut the story had run into, before the story veers off-road into wholly unexpected directions. The narrative opens up, adding rich, new characters while exposing new depths to our main characters, Jon and Suzie. As ever in this series, Fraction's plot is suffused with a warm sense of loving understanding and sympathy for his characters, revealed in their uniquely offbeat sexual histories. This series is a rare feat: existing at a seemingly impossible crossroads of the high-concept and the deeply personal. It's frank and funny about sexual matters, delighting in polymorphic perversity and lacing the background of some scenes with scatological jokes hidden in the fine print (like the titles in a porn bookstore), yet it somehow never defaults to the demeaning and dirty. (This achievement is in no small part due to Chip Zdarsky's unfailingly charming art, with a cartoony verve that gives real, vivid personality to every character, a delightful bounce to the action, and a psychedelic sense of wonder to "Cumworld" / "The Quiet," the timeless zone that Jon and Suzie share.)
In short, the book is filled with joy and titillation, and (as Stephen Soderbergh said about The Girlfriend Experience) you should share it with someone you ****.
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