Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

10 best books like Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score (Darwyn Cooke): Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Criminal, Vol. 6: The Last of the Innocent, Criminal, Vol. 4: Bad Night, Criminal, Vol. 3: The Dead and the Dying, Stumptown, Vol. 1: The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo, Stumptown, Vol. 2: The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Case, The Man With The Getaway Face, Bad Weekend, Criminal, Vol. 2: Lawless

Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	0785132295

Tracy Lawless is the main character for this one. I think it's his return to the series but I've read them out of order and I'm easily confused. It doesn't matter with these books though because they each can be read individually. (Yay! that helps old broads with shit for brains)

Lawless is ex-military...

My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	1534308466

The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE.

Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie...

Criminal, Vol. 6: The Last of the Innocent

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	0785158294

THE BEST-REVIEWED COMIC OF THE YEAR COLLECTED JUST IN TIME FOR X-MAS!

Obsession, sex, money, and nostalgia for days long past all collide in THE LAST OF THE INNOCENT Riley Richards got it all... The hottest girl in school and a ticket to the big time. So why isn't he happy now? Why can't he forget...

Criminal, Vol. 4: Bad Night

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	0785132287

A woman in trouble, friends on the run from cops and mobsters, and a secret no one is prepared to face! Five years ago, Jake was a happy family man, long-retired from the life of crime he grew up in, and then the police made him the prime suspect in a horrible crime and ripped his life apart! Now, years later,...

Criminal, Vol. 3: The Dead and the Dying

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	0785132279

Just when I thought Ed Brubaker’s Criminal comic series couldn’t get any better, he sets a story back in the ‘70s that had me humming the Shaft theme song while I was reading it.

The main story revolves around a black boxer and his white gangster friend. The two grew up together because their...

Stumptown, Vol. 1: The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo

Author	Greg Rucka
ISBN	1934964379

Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change....

Stumptown, Vol. 2: The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Case

Author	Greg Rucka
ISBN	1934964891

From Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and acclaimed artist Matthew Southworth comes a new Stumptown mystery! Dex Parios has finally opened her own office, and her first case is to find rock star Mim Bracca's baby - her prized guitar - which disappeared after her band Tailhook's Portland show....

The Man With The Getaway Face

Author

Richard Stark

4.0 stars. After settling a vendetta against his former crew and starting a big, juicy new one against the entire Outfit in the The Hunter....PARKER (aka Mr. Badass MoFo)....IS …..BACK!! He has a brand new face thanks to some nifty plastic surgery performed by an “off the books” doctor...

Bad Weekend

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	1534314407

Just in time for Convention Season, the ultimate comic con crime tale!

Comics won't just break your heart.

Comics will just kill you.

Hal Crane should know, he's been around since practically the beginning. Stuck at an out-of-town convention, waiting to receive a lifetime...

Criminal, Vol. 2: Lawless

Author	Ed Brubaker
ISBN	0785128166

Twenty years ago, Tracy Lawless traded the crime-ridden streets of the city for a life in the military, and it's a decision he's rarely regretted. But now he's walking out of the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq and back into the world he grew up in, to find out who killed his brother Rick, and why. But truth...