Criminal Volume 8: My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies (New Edition)

Celebrating the Prime Video series adaptation, the eighth volume of Brubaker and Phillips' groundbreaking crime series returns to print with a stunning new cover painting and design.

Teenage Ellie has always romanticized drug addicts, those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and pills, ever since the death of her junkie mother ten years ago. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is as it appears to be, she'll find another-more dangerous-romance, and discover how easily drugs and murder go hand-in-hand.

An Eisner-Winner for Best Graphic Novel 2019 - My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies is a seductive coming-of-age story, a pop and drug culture-fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness... and what she finds there.

Author: Ed Brubaker
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781534350670
ISBN10: 1534350675
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Crime & Mystery
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Coming of Age

About the Author
Ed Brubaker is one of the most acclaimed writers in comics, winning five best writer Eisner and Harvey Awards in the last ten years. His bestselling work with Sean Phillips on Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, and The Fade Out has been translated around the world to great acclaim, and Marvel's movies featuring his co-creation, The Winter Soldier, have all been international blockbusters. Ed lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their crazy dog, where he works in comics, film, and television, most recently on HBO's new hit series Westworld.

Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, Eisner Award winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies, and Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Sean has concentrated on creator-owned books including Criminal, Kill Or Be Killed, Incognito, Fatale and The Fade Out.

He is currently drawing a new volume of the long-running Criminal series written by his long-time collaborator Ed Brubaker and coloured by his son Jacob Phillips.

He lives in the Lake District in the UK.