Sex Criminals #2

"Come, World" or "Cumworld"
written by Matt Fraction
art by Chip Zdarsky

So the circumstances behind Jon and Suzie's bathroom hook-up in the first issue are elaborated a little more here.  They're in trouble...in a bank...with guns.  And, more importantly, they're being pursued by some white-costumed folks with a bullhorn that don't seem to be deterred by Jon and Suzie's time-suspending bathroom sex.  Apparently magic sex is a contingency for which local police have already planned.  Interesting.

More to the point, "Cumworld"—or according to the cover, "Come, World"—is Jon's account of his own discovery of his sex superpower.  It's a tale about KISS make-up, porn in the woods, taxes, a porn star named Jazmine St. Cocaine, and an adult entertainment store named Cumworld.

It may be the same condition, but Jon's experience of it has a few more rules...and a few more quirks.  Like a glowing penis.  And a relatively well-defined "refractory period" during which he can sustain his time in "the Quiet" (or "Cumworld").  Suzie's experience of the time-stoppage is less specific, and as far as we yet know she doesn't glow.  It also seems that it's possible to stop time on the other if they don't orgasm together, though the rules for this are still somewhat unclear.

However, Sex Criminals remains a delight because it's such an honest, whimsical, and above all funny recollection of how most of us come of sexual age.  More or less.  Jon and Suzie are a lovable couple who fall so easily into banter about such personal subjects that the reader can't help but envy their quick intimacy.  Fraction and Zdansky have so many background jokes that each panel, particularly those in Jon's adolescent porn oasis Cumworld, is worth close scrutiny.  There's a novelty penis garden hose.  There are anal doubloons, a few logical leaps away from anal beads.  There's a security warning sign promising that explicit activities will be recorded and jacked off to.  Sex Criminals, as sex itself should be, is fun.