Lawless

Lawless, the second volume of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal, begins shortly after the events of Coward. Tracy Lawless is AWOL from military prison, determined to find out who murdered his brother, Ricky Lawless. To get started, Tracy pulls a strong-arm robbery on the mob and tracks down an old acquaintance who specializes in forged identity documents. (If you think all of this will come back to haunt him later, you're right.) In short order, Tracy tracks down Ricky's old crew, murders their wheelman, and infiltrates the gang as their new driver. Tracy then gets close to Ricky's old girlfriend Mallory, who is also a member of the gang. Much mayem ensues, Tracy ends up finding out a lot more than he bargained for, and the ending leaves him with more questions than ever.