CRIMINAL on Prime Video in January, UNFINISHED TALES Out Today!

HUGE NEWS: Finally—FINALLY!—Prime Video (née Amazon Prime Video) has officially announced release dates for the two halves of the CRIMINAL TV series and has released images for the show along with a mesmerizing teaser trailer.

We believe the original plans was for the show to be released in 2025 alongside the new editions of the series' trade paperbacks, but we have no doubt that it will be worth the wait. In a comment on Instagram, Sean Phillips relays, "I've seen it all, I love it!"

The set of official images includes a spreadsheet of captions identifying some quite familiar characters, and Ed Brubaker's email newsletter on the big announcement includes similar captions. It's clear we're going to have at least one flashback that wasn't present in the original COWARD and LAWLESS arcs. Brubaker writes that longtime fans will see both plenty of Easter eggs and some changes to the stories. We notice that the show hasn't been meticulously reproducing hair styles, but scenes and shots look very familiar, and we saw a close-up of a pulp novel with a noteworthy title, possibly from the title sequence.

(It seems we have a flashback with some teens, probably some combination of Tracy, Ricky, Leo, and possibly a few others like Jacob or Jenny. I do wonder about how they'll produce the series over the course of multiple seasons when the show returns to these young versions of familiar characters. Maybe they've filmed additional scenes in advance of multiple seasons, otherwise I imagine that characters might have to be recast to avoid the fate of shows like Stranger Things where actors pushing thirty are still playing high-school kids.)

The show appears to be doing right by the series, separating releases by the book they're adapting.

CRIMINAL: COWARD is out Wednesday, January 13th, 2027—new comic book day!

CRIMINAL: LAWLESS is out Wednesday, January 27th.

...and if you can't wait for more from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, wait no longer! UNFINISHED TALES reaches stores today, and in his newsletter Brubaker provides additional preview pages never before seen.

So: get UNFINISHED TALES today, and get ready for CRIMINAL streaming in January!