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!