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Roberto Camargo
First Year Seminar
February 2, 2012
In Money We Trust
In The Last Of The Innocent, we can see a great example of a perfectly composed comic, switching from cartoon torealism to create an identifiable character at certain points, and a unique character with his own identity in the rest of the story. Each of the main characters in the story represent the differentpersonalities of Americans in the 21th century, each with their own secrets, and aspirations. Criminal: The Last Of The Innocent relates the story of how Riley Richards, a “self-centered prick”, murdershis wife Felix, frames Teddy-his life long enemy- for the crime and then kills his best friend Freakout in an attempt to start a new life; but on a deeper side it reveals the secret life and dreams ofthe American society.
The sixth issue of the Criminal series, co-authored by Brubaker and Phillips, narrates the crimes committed by Riley Richards through his own eyes. It is not until Rileyreturns to his hometown to visit his sick father when he realizes he had taken an unwanted path in his life: His decisions have led him to be engaged with Felix, a rich, beautiful, arrogant woman,who cheats on him with his enemy, and whose sole interest is to feel wanted. When Riley arrives to his house in Brookview and finds it empty, he decides to go to his room, where the melancholy from pastmemories haunt his thoughts and make him realize that he was not living the life he had wished at an earlier age; a few days later he realizes he can have a second chance, if he kills his wife.On one occasion, Riley induces Freakout to pass out due to the use of drugs and alcohol, creating a perfect window of opportunity to carry out his deeds at the same time he establishes anirrefutable alibi for himself. By killing his wife in the same place where she and Teddy had been cheating on him, Riley perfectly frames Teddy for the murder and therefore eludes the suspect list. In order...