At first glance, this has a lot of similarities to Aaron's previous opus, Scalped. A man comes returns to his small-town home after decades away. Crime has taken over. He becomes the only person to fight back. There's just one twist here: it ain't gonna work out even remotely. Heck, I'm not even sure we've met whoever will eventually be the main characters. I'm intrigued and I'll be back for volume 2. Earl Tubb has returned to Craw County, Alabama, home of the state champions, the Runnin' Rebs football team [very stereotypical right there, small southern town with nothing to take pride in but their football team].Anyway, Tubb is back to pack up his old home, except that he has come to find that in the time he has been gone, the town has gone to shit and the football team moonlights as criminal enforcers for Coach Boss. Surprise, surprise, Coach Boss is the guy that like 50 years ago used to get his ass kicked by the football team back in high school.Tubb takes a stand against all this and in the end it almost looks like he gets killed, though we are not really sure because it just ends there and then we get a "Sequel Coming Soon" note.The story was alright, the drawings sort of make it seem like the south is a horrible, horrible place, but it's still good in a weird, wrong way. I would definitely read and follow up on this series.Rating 3 out of 5Read@Book
What do You think about Southern Bastards #1 (2014)?
Aaron cover familiar ground with LTour in tow for apt visual partnership.The title says it all.
—kota
*3.5 stars*The graphics are truly spectacular, but damn this just made me depressed.
—anig
Somehow I feel this is going to turn into Dirty Harry gets Southern... I like it!!!
—saraduffard
