Their relationship serves as a metaphor for having sex with someone you care about and you connect with-you know, sex that seems to stop time.ĭon’t worry, though: Fraction and Zdarsky aren’t interested in hammering home that point. The narrative stars Suzie, a girl who discovers she can stop time when she orgasms (something she calls “The Quiet”), and how she eventually meets Jon, someone who has the same ability (though he calls his time-stopping period, um, “Cumworld”). Which is remarkable-there aren’t many instances in popular media that actually dare to tackle sex in all of its wonderful and confusing contradictory terms. You read that correctly.īut the reason for all the talk is that it’s one of the first mainstream comic books to really treat sex in any kind of realistic way-the sex in Sex Criminals is funny, it’s awkward, it’s wonderful, it’s gross, it’s meaningful, it’s explosive, it’s connecting, it’s powerful. Quite possibly one of the most talked-about series currently ongoing, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals tells the story of two people who can stop time with their orgasms.
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