Cruel and Unusual (comics)
# 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.

## Synopsis

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

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

* Cruel and Unusual (112 pages, softcover, Desperado Publishing, September 2007, ISBN 0-9795939-2-1)
* Cruel and Unusual (Italian language) (128 pages, hardcover, Green Comm Services, August 2013, ISBN 978-88-90788-51-2)
