Hilarious and excellent
Sex Criminals may be the funniest comic book I've ever read. The premise is cute on its own, but really the genuinely awesome writing is what keeps this series fun to read. I don't think I've ever laughed out loud at a comic book before, but I laughed a lot reading this. Make absolutely certain you get a digital version and zoom in any time there's writing in the background. The posters and video names in the porn store had me rolling.
Don't be put off by the name, it's just another joke by the writers. That's the kind of humor to expect here, so if you don't think it's funny to title a book "sex criminals" when it's about a couple who discovers that when they have sex, they can freeze time, and decide to start robbing banks, the humor may not be for you. Even the letters in the back of each issue, which I normally skip, are worth reading here. Seriously, super-entertaining stuff.
I don't know why people keep describing the book as "sexy" or "erotic". Yeah it has sex (obviously) and nudity, but I never found any of erotic. In fact, it's not erotic, nor is it crass or exploitative. People are just sometimes naked because you have to be naked to have sex. It's very matter of fact. You know how you might be doing something on your laptop and your SO changes clothes in the room, so for a brief moment they are naked? And you don't make a big deal of it or immediately ravage them overcome by their sexuality, it's just a thing that's happening in the room, where it's nudity but it's weirdly non-sexual? That's how the sex is handled in this book, it's just a thing that everyone has and we're not going to be babies about it. I thought it was refreshing and mature, but not particularly erotic.
My chief complaint is it falls victim to the same trope that lots of high-concept "what if someone could do X?" fiction: after our main character(s) discover their super awesome power and we're ready to explore the possibilities of having those powers, the writers realize they need an antagonist, and decide that there's actually an underground faction of people with the exact same power, and their job is to police the people who discover their powers so they aren't abused. If you've ever seen the movie Jumper, it's like that.
Not a lot happens in Volume 1 to be honest. We get the backstory, it really seems to take its time to "really get going", and I think volume 1 ends just as it's getting interesting. Normally based on how little actually occurs, I'd recommend passing on a book like this. But the truth is, it's so funny, and such a blast to read, that it's worth reading even if very little is actually happening character or story-wise. I highly recommend Sex Criminals, and I'm eager to see where the series goes.
