Sex Criminals Vol. 6: Six Criminals
Matt Fraction, writer; Chip Zdarsky, artist
Image Comics, 2020
The final volume opens with the gang (which now includes the Sex Police) trying to figure out what to do about their mutual enemy Badal, and the huge BankCorp he leads. At the same time, Suze has been having disturbing visions which seem to be coming from the future. Or maybe from the past: she also has disturbing memories, and wonders if she has not been a trauma victim without realizing it.
Two interesting facts about Badal: he gets off on causing pain to others (that's how he enters the Quiet); and he has invented a technology to store the energy created when others enter the Quiet. Oh, and the first time he transcended via cruelty he had a vision of Suze. So she became a god-like figure to him, and he spent his entire career waiting to reunite with her. But in the meantime, his orgasms took him into the future, where he saw the opportunities that would make him rich. Their final meeting ends with a huge explosion that nearly destroys the BankCorp tower, and both of them go missing.
Suze's friends look for her without success. And gradually they all come to realize that the Quiet was gone: for everyone. Suze travels through her own history, finally winding up where she left: three months and six days later. After Jon gets out of prison (due to taking revenge on Badal's mansion) they reunite, and things look like they are back to normal. Cut to Issue #69, in which everyone travels to a private resort island for Dewey and Bud's Destination Wedding. SPOILER: Jon and Suze are not together, but they're OK. The series ends with them watching the sunrise together in a tropical paradise. If that's not a happy ending, I don't know what is.
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