Southern Bastards, Volume 1: Here Was a Man

by Jason Aaron, Jason Latour (Illustrator)

Overview

Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you've ever seen. When you're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this...is to carry a really big stick. COLLECTS SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1-4.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632152190
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Series:	Southern Bastards Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	62 MB
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Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Jason Aaron is a comic book writer best known for his work on the critically acclaimed crime series Scalped for Vertigo Comics and the Eisner-nominated SOUTHERN BASTARDS from Image Comics, as well as for various celebrated projects with Marvel Comics.

Aaron’s current work for Marvel includes the creation of the headline-grabbing female version of Thor and the launch of an all-new Star Wars series, the first issue of which sold over one million copies to become the best-selling American comic book in more than 20 years.

Aaron was born in Alabama but currently resides in Kansas City. He enjoys many things but shaving is not one of them.

Editorial Reviews

11/03/2014
What does old Earl Tubb do when he returns home to Craw County, Ala., only to find the place a veritable criminal fiefdom run by Euless Boss, the local high school football coach? Why, pick up the stick helpfully cleaved by lightning from a tree growing out of his daddy’s grave and start meting out justice just like his father, the old sheriff, did. In the cleaning-up-the-dirty-old-town Southern-fried pulper, writer Aaron (Scalped) and artist Jason Latour (Django Unchained) spread around no more story than is absolutely necessary, and most of it involves people being at the wrong end of a stick, baseball bat, or even (in an early fight scene) a deep-fryer basket. Both Jasons hail from the South, as they discuss in a particularly bighearted introduction, and so likely feel unencumbered by concerns about overdosing on clichés. Thus, the high-impact pages are strewn with bruising high school football, sweet tea, barbecue, trucker caps, and snarling rednecks. The story, in which Tubb clobbers his way through throngs of underlings to get at Boss, is no more complicated than a redo of Walking Tall. But there’s a thread of something deeper, bloodier, and more resonant that often transcends the usual psychotic-redneck shtick, aided in no small part by Latour’s spare, elegant art. (Oct.)

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