Best Crime Comics Series

Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is the gold standard of crime comics, an anthology of interlocking noir stories set in the same corrupt city that demonstrates what the genre can achieve when treated with the seriousness of literary fiction.

Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera is one of the finest crime comics ever published, a Reservation noir set on a Lakota reservation that balances systemic social critique with intensely personal crime drama.

100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso is a labyrinthine crime epic, giving 100 different people an untraceable gun and the chance to take revenge, building toward a massive conspiracy that spans the entire series.

Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips blends noir crime fiction with Lovecraftian horror, a femme fatale with supernatural powers moving through different eras of American history pursued by a monstrous cult.