Anne's Reviews > The Last Days of American Crime

Remender's weird plot and Tocchini's terrible art made this one a big NO for me.



Thought I was getting a noir crime comic, and it turned out I was reading some kind of nonsense that used graphic violence and sex to cover up a poorly thought-out dystopian plot.



Graham is the underdog criminal looking to make one last score that will get his ailing mother and himself across the Mexican border before America makes crime un-doable.
Yes.
The government is getting ready to broadcast some kind of radio frequency that will make everyone unable to do anything that they know is against the law.
My first thought was what the fuck am I reading, but I thought if I give it a chance, it might turn out to be cool.
No, wait. I lied.
My first thought was what toddler drew this?, then I thought what the fuck am I reading, then I decided that it might turn out to be cool.
The short version is that it did not.



The longer version is that there were too many things going on in this for any of them to land.
Graham teams up with the sexpot Shelby and her psycho boyfriend, Kevin, to hack a bank thing during the switchover that will then feed them digital $$ into an account. Whatever they are doing will ensure that if they make it across the border with their little hacked box, they'll be set up for life.
Also, Shelby seduces Graham and they have disgusting bathroom sex before he realizes who she is. So now they have this weird little secret. And then Kevin has a secret or two.
And Shelby might be playing both of them.
Then again...maybe not.
And Graham's mom has Alzheimer's and thinks he's his brother...or something?
And all I could think was WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MIND CONTROL BROADCAST AND WHY IS THAT NOT THE STORY?



This part of the ending was so stupid - (view spoiler)[Kevin is immune to the broadcast because he's a sociopath? No. No, no, no.
IF something as dumb and invasive as a radio broadcast could stop crime and was being implemented by our government, don't you think they would have tested it out on a few psychos before they turned it on? What? In this imaginary Clockwork Orange scenario the people who came up with this didn't do a test run in prisons first?
Getthefuckoutofhere. (hide spoiler)]



Remender's dialogue is readable which is why I'm not 1-starring it, but the plot was just fucking wonky and I really didn't care for the artwork at all.