Cruel and Unusual (comics)

Cruel and Unusual is a four-issue American comic book mini-series created in 1999 by Jamie Delano and Tom Peyer (writers), John McCrea (penciller) and Andrew Chiu (inker), and published by Vertigo.

Cruel and Unusual
Cover to Cruel and Unusual #1, art by John McCrea.
Publication information
PublisherVertigo
FormatMini-series
Publication dateJune – September 1999
No. of issues4
Creative team
Created byJamie Delano
Tom Peyer
John McCrea
Written byJamie Delano
Tom Peyer
Penciller(s)John McCrea
Inker(s)Andrew Chiu
Letterer(s)Annie Parkhouse
Colorist(s)Digital Chameleon
Tatjana Wood
Editor(s)Cliff Chiang
Stuart Moore
Collected editions
Cruel and UnusualISBN 0-9795939-2-1

Synopsis edit

America's struggling prison system is turned over to TV producers, who exploit everything possible for profit, making reality shows of the prisoners and even hosting live executions.

Collected editions edit

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

Notes edit

  1. ^ Cruel and Unusual trade details Archived 2009-11-11 at the Wayback Machine at Desperado
  2. ^ Italian version of "Cruel and Unusual" Archived 2013-11-09 at the Wayback Machine at Green comm Services

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