One person found this helpful. My feeling is that his work shines Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I don't do reviews often. Something has to really compel me to sit down and take the time to express it here. And for the most part, I'm a Jason Aaron fan. Scalped was a one-of-a-kind series. But I've read some of his Marvel work and have been pretty underwhelmed. My feeling is that his work shines when he is doing creator-owned stuff that is near-and-dear to his heart.
Which is why I am excited to have picked up Southern Bastards. Here we see what Aaron does best: But the true superstar of Southern Bastards is Jason Latour. Comics are riddled with overdrawing cartoonists that use a million lines to capture a gesture. These artists make up the glut of comic shelves these days, particularly super-hero books. Latour is a beautiful exception. With a few meaningful lines he deftly communicates character, expression, gesture and motion.
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His line work is visceral, stylized and confident. And his "painting" of the work blows my mind: Clearly, Latour is having a ball illustrating this book. Best comic I've read since Preacher. This is a very good comic book with an intriguing plot line and interesting characters. The art is gorgeous and the writer is a genius. Every page left me on the edge of my seat! I highly recommend this to anyone who likes jaw-dropping thrillers.
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Small town, southern grit lit, and BBQ. Throw in some football and you have the makings of a great afternoon. I received an arc copy of this book in exchange for an honest review from Netgalley. View all 9 comments.
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Dec 23, Jan Philipzig rated it really liked it Shelves: This Southern-fried pulper comes complete with beer-drinking rednecks, trucker caps, lots of bullying and corruption, a powerful and ruthless football coach, his successful high-school team turned private death squad, sweet tea and barbecue, nasty Church-going sneaks, and an angry old man bent on cleaning up the place with his very big stick.
As you can tell, the story is not terribly original. Then again, neither is the American South, so I guess it is a good fit. The two Jason's - both hailing This Southern-fried pulper comes complete with beer-drinking rednecks, trucker caps, lots of bullying and corruption, a powerful and ruthless football coach, his successful high-school team turned private death squad, sweet tea and barbecue, nasty Church-going sneaks, and an angry old man bent on cleaning up the place with his very big stick.
The two Jason's - both hailing from the South - manage to bring their dirty old town to life with many memorable images and gritty details, successfully walking the line between authenticity and cliche. Jan 06, Anthony Vacca rated it really liked it. I am a Southern Bastard. Then you can go ahead and go fuck yerself. View all 22 comments. Oct 23, David Schaafsma rated it really liked it Shelves: Seems like the two Jasons have a bone to pick with their American South, where they grew up and no longer live. Maybe it's a love-hate relationship.
The tale is of a solo vigilante ex-football hero Vietnam Vet that returns home to rain some Hell on some local football coach and his former players who operate as local asswhoopers. They are some of the southern bastards the title refers to that the Jasons can't seem to forgive. Throughout, Tubb, our sorta hero, leaves phone messages for someone wh Seems like the two Jasons have a bone to pick with their American South, where they grew up and no longer live.
Throughout, Tubb, our sorta hero, leaves phone messages for someone who gets revealed in the last image of the volume, which just might explain why the southern bastards are happy Tubb left town. I won't say what that something is, but it may point to the very bone the Jasons have to pick with the old boy south they left. Tubb also talks with his dead father, whom he hated, and for whom in part the ironic subtitle is intended, a phrase that is etched on his gravestone. Every cliche in the book is here about The South but it doesn't really matter, as the dialogue crackles and the action thunders.
Or maybe it's in part good because they try to explore those very cliches, a whole ton of 'em. It's to me surprisingly entertaining, especially since I was practically the only person in the universe who didn't really get into Aaron's Scalped, when I read it three years ago. Maybe my tastes have sufficiently devolved to appreciate this raucous profane storytelling. Maybe I just need a football, bbq and beer and an old-man-with-a-big-stick story right now. Maybe I should even give Scalped another try! I liked this one quite a bit. A pulp Alabama ride! View all 10 comments. Sep 08, Sam Quixote rated it really liked it.
Jason Aaron returns for his first creator owned work since Scalped with Southern Bastards choosing Image as publisher over Vertigo this time around alongside fellow Southerner, artist Jason Latour. Earl Tubb is coming back to Craw County, Alabama for the first time in 40 years. That is until he realises what a festering swamp of injustice his childhood hometown has become. Drugs, crime and corrup Jason Aaron returns for his first creator owned work since Scalped with Southern Bastards choosing Image as publisher over Vertigo this time around alongside fellow Southerner, artist Jason Latour.
They have a singular purpose, once they set their minds to it, and fear is no obstacle. The difference is that Earl has a family still alive and is much more human in general. SB feels like the convergence of a lot of his recent comics work in one place. The impression I got from reading Southern Bastards is actually very one-sided: Right from the first page the tone is set: All throughout the story, Latour colours the book in muted, dark reds as if Craw County were actually in hell, while the townsfolk go about their business, turning a blind eye to evil.
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From the tattooed scumbags who hospitalise an innocent child, to the complicit attitude that allows the local football coach to act like a mafia boss of the town and get away with murder just because he wins them matches, SB is all condemnation of what the South stands for. View all 6 comments. Thanks to Humble Bundle for their last and superb Image Bundle. I'm only in the middle of that series and I'm already hooked like a junkie for my next fix.
Aaron is in my Top writers in the industry right now, no doubt. So when I read the jacket on the back of this one and look at all the names giving quotes and recommending this: The best in the bizz. Between that and the fairly accepted praise from friends on here who's opinions I truly value, this was set up for greatness And boy, does it deliver.
Earl Tubb is one badass mofo. Having left the small Alabama town where his daddy was sheriff 40yrs ago, never to return He comes back conflicted, and within hours, is knee deep in local bullshit all over again. This feels like a Clint Eastwood movie just waiting to be made. Cross Deliverance with Walking Tall and give ole' Squint the reins. The county his father kept clean until his death is the usual Southern Hellhole, run by Coach Boss, a combination of Boss Hogg and the Coach in Varsity Blues, except filtered through Satan.
The use of heavy reds and browns and yellows really give the feel of hell on Earth, heat, and damned souls. Try as he might, Earl wants nothing more than to pack up his family house, and get the fuck out This is noir so dark, it's black. It takes a chunk of you just to read it.
Make no mistake, this isn't some comic book, this is pure American Noir in the hands of a modern master. View all 14 comments. Jun 18, Mike rated it it was amazing Shelves: Just finished this book and my heart is pounding. Shouldn't have read this before going to bed - I'll be up half the night, dreaming of revenge fantasies. One of the most striking things about this book is just how much of a presence Earl Tubbs has without lifting a finger.
The grizzled squint, the toothbrush moustache, the gnarled arms - yes, Earl's a piece of work and I'd believe he's a shitkicker even in his sixties? The next thing that struck me was how much this book owes to noir - the gn Just finished this book and my heart is pounding.
The next thing that struck me was how much this book owes to noir - the gnawing feeling of inevitable failure and succumbing to a fate you never even knew was threatened before you step on the scene. Earl's fucked as soon as he drives into town, and I'm not sure whether he doesn't know or really hasn't got a shit to give let alone two.
The whole book has a slight whiff of moldy ground beef - discoloured, chewed up, ragged. Makes me slightly ill just thinking about it. What a great, grand villain they've crafted in Coach Boss. Terrifying yet weak in just the right amount to make him supremely dangerous. And a town full of cowards and lackeys. Y'know what this reminds me of as much as anything? Road House - that 80's Patrick Swayze movie where a town full of rednecks get steamrolled by an evil overlord.
Can't wait for "the cooler" to show up. Until it's time to not be nice. View all 4 comments. Mar 10, Crystal Starr Light rated it really liked it Shelves: But my coworker found this - and I rather liked it! It's brutal and gritty. It's realistic and violent. But the characters grow on you. The Southern Atmosphere is alive - I can almost smell the biscuits and ribs! And the art makes the entire story jump.
So yeah, Aaron, well done! You are a good writer after all! Earl Tubb returns to Craw County to clean up his uncle's home - the home he was raised in. But when he arrives, he starts to see how the town is owned by Coach Boss and his cronies - men who beat up and kill other men for reasons as yet undisclosed. Is it time for Earl to take up his father's beating stick and beat some sense back into the town? I tried reading "Original Sin" by Jason Aaron, and while I enjoyed the beginning, the end was a massive flop.
It was just so disappointing and pointless - I wondered why and pretty much assumed that Aaron and I were parting ways.
But my coworker is great and lends me all these cool finds from the library. Some of them have been out of this world insane Zaya and Naja come to mind , but some of them have been winners. This was a winner. This book drew me in, with the art this cartoony yet really gritty style, that relied on all these browns, reds, and oranges , with the characters Earl, Dusty, Shawna, and more , with the setting. It is completely obvious that the authors are more than familiar with living down South - the good AND the bad.
And I think that's really what I like about this. I hate those silly cozy novels, where a slick city girl moves to this country town and life is perfect and idyllic. Everyone is quirky, but everyone is also tolerant and blissful and blech. I don't care where you live, there will be great people, but there will also be tyrants and complete assholes.
I finished this in one sitting and immediately needed to know what happened next. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait for Volume 2. Jul 29, Donovan rated it really liked it Shelves: Sweet tea, ribs, and high school football, Southern Bastards is satire and southern gothic, with rough, beautiful artwork. View all 5 comments.
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man
Jun 18, 'kris Pung rated it it was amazing Shelves: Holy Shit did Aaron just knock this one out of the park. This is the best book I've read all year by far and right up there with Scalped for best slice of life comic for me. Talk about gritty in your face realism, man was this just brutal. Can't wait to read the next volume.
Aug 07, Anthony rated it really liked it Shelves: This was pretty cool. I think it's the first Jason Aaron creator owned book that I've read. It's about a building feud in an Alabama town. A town where everyone is all about BBQ, football, beer and foul language. Not usually the type of thing I'd read, but I did enjoy it probably because it felt different.
View all 7 comments. Mar 20, Eleven rated it it was amazing. I already told Santa that there are sequels. If he doesn't deliver, I'll have someone break his legs. View all 8 comments. Apr 02, Jedi JC Daquis rated it it was amazing. The hell did I just read? Southern Bastards is plain perfection when you want some pretty nasty stories with a right amount of heart in it. Reading the first volume gave me mixed but strong feelings. Aaron has a talent to make the readers empathize with the old man protagonist Earl Tubbs.
It is is a driven and motivated beatdown that I am really, really satisfied with. Like the beautifully crea The hell did I just read? Like the beautifully created Scalped, Southern Bastards doesn't waste a sweat to make itself brutally clear that it is one of the ultimate messed-up gritty comics stories out there. Apr 08, Ill D rated it it was ok Shelves: As much as I enjoyed Aaron's previous work, Scalped, this following offering feels a bit of a downgrade.
And despite the pleasant art work, it feels more like a glorified intro than anything.
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What should have just been a vignette of sorts is dragged out into a page comic that for all its length, doesn't really have much to show for it. A story of a man's past catchi As much as I enjoyed Aaron's previous work, Scalped, this following offering feels a bit of a downgrade. A story of a man's past catching up to him ensconce this tale of a gang s and chump-change corruption.
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This might've worked in a Western but feels quite a mismatch for a lone-hero within a modern context. Not because it's a bad idea but because everything is super-duper vague and it reduces to a quixotic one man's fight against town hall. If we don't know why our hero is fighting how can we care? All the more irritating is that when he's not clobbering people with a stick and munching on ribs our protagonist essentially talks to himself as a plot device to drive the narrative.
This odd decision does nothing to drive an emotional connection and merely justifies the creation of another sequel. And as always, there is another comic to sell. Sep 29, GrilledCheeseSamurai rated it really liked it. Whats not to like? Sep 08, Joseph rated it it was ok Shelves: Even the last page "shocker" is such a silly cliche it had me laughing out loud.
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man by Jason Aaron
I'm just surprised the KKK wasn't thrown in as well, but maybe they show up in future issues. Aaron is a good writer, and there are some terrific tension filled moments in this book, which is autobiographical, based on the brief interview with the two creators in the front of the book. The protagonist of this book, if you can call him that, is some guy named Earl Tubb wow, that's an original name. Tubb is modeled after Jason Aaron himself, whose love-hate relationship with the South is portrayed in Southern Bastards as Earl's love-hate relationship with his father.
In other words, lots of anger and misplaced hatred. But, as a fellow reviewer put it, the whole book is not very original. There's nothing in this potboiler that hasn't been written about before. And although Aaron tries to shoehorn some personality into Earl Tubb, it falls flat because the warmth Tubb shows on the phone to an unknown person is belied by the burning fury inside that makes him become just another thug bent on kicking some ass vigilante style. Batman could take some notes off of this guy. I suppose Aaron thinks it's cute to name one of the characters after a prominent Alabama family, the Tutwilers, one of whom was an Undersecretary of State for George W.
Bush, and another who was a major force for prison reform in the state and whose name adorns the women's prison, currently ranked as one of the ten worst in the nation. It just seems cheesy. Aaron doesn't tell us where in the state Craw County is supposed to be, but unless it's in the very bottom portion of the state, Birmingham is not as far away from any other place as Aaron makes it out to be, either. Latour's art is good. Rough as a comic like this would require, and he doesn't spare us shots of blood everywhere as people get beat up on page after page. Latour also does the coloring, but everything is in subdued tones of reds and grays and browns, and becomes very one-note and rather dull.
Didn't hate this book, but didn't like it much, either. I still have Scalped on my shelf, but after reading this, I think I'll put it further down on the list.