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Jason Aaron & Steve Dillon’s PunisherMAX: Kingpin Becomes Walter White

by James Kelly | in Articles | Mon, 1 October 2018

Though many fans will rightfully clamor for Ennis’ Punisher, Aaron & Dillon’s 22-issue run on the Punisher is the greatest Punisher story ever told. Beginning with Wilson Fisk rising in the criminal world. [more]

The Goddamned #5: No Happy Endings

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Fri, 20 January 2017

“I’m Cain, the man who invented murder. But God invented me, so ask yourself: who’s the real asshole here?” If readers expected the story of Jason Aaron and r. m. Guera’s The Goddamned to take… [more]

Southern Bastards #16: Moving the Goalposts

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Tue, 10 January 2017

There are eerie and tempting parallels between Coach Boss and a certain American President-elect. Both are brutal, simple-minded, deeply insecure tyrants, and both have a tendency to move the goalposts and declare victory when an… [more]

Southern Bastards #15: The Taste of Ribs and Defeat

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Tue, 1 November 2016

Here we are again in the steaming tribal vendetta-filled world of Southern Bastards. Craw County continues, here in issue #15, to be a community that measures is worth based on the standing of its high… [more]

Congratulations to the 2016 Eisner Award Winners

by Ian Dawe | in Articles | Sat, 23 July 2016

Our series on the Eisner Awards was never meant to be predictive of who would win — quite the contrary, we were only trying to profile some of the nominated titles, because they’re all worth… [more]

The Goddamned #4: You Don’t Mess With Noah

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Wed, 1 June 2016

The Goddamned is one of two major comics that have recently offered us a reimagined version of the Biblical character Noah. The other book — Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which was also made into a big… [more]

A Tour of the 2016 Eisner Nominees, Part 12 – Wrapping Up

by Ian Dawe | in Articles | Wed, 25 May 2016

Over the course of this series about the 2016 Eisner Award Nominees, we’ve been focusing on individual titles that many comics fans may have either missed or overlooked. Without question, every comic mentioned in the… [more]

Southern Bastards #14: “Homecoming” Ends

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Tue, 10 May 2016

As we reach the end of the “Homecoming” story arc in Southern Bastards, it becomes fairly clear what this particular storyline has always been about. Not football, or even race, necessarily, but the rather the… [more]

The Goddamned #3: The Mark of Cain

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Thu, 7 April 2016

Jason Aaron’s The Goddamned is best described as a cross between the Bible and Mad Max, with all the brutality and wit that implies. But somehow it goes so far into the depths of inhumanity… [more]

Southern Bastards #13: Game Time

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Mon, 25 January 2016

Ah, American football. It isn’t the world’s most competitive sport (have you seen the World Cup lately?), nor is it necessarily its most violent (I’m looking at you, Australian rules rugby), but there’s something about… [more]

The Goddamned #2: Sin and Redemption

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Wed, 13 January 2016

Who are “the goddamned”, referenced in rm Guera and Jason Aaron’s The Goddamned? This ultra-violent re-interpretation of the Old Testament is faithful to the original text in the sense that the goddamned are really all… [more]

My Pick for the Best Comic of 2015: Invisible Republic

by Ian Dawe | in Articles | Sat, 2 January 2016

“Beware the best-of list”, Shakespeare once wrote. Or he should have. There are deep problems with basing one’s opinion of the literature worth reading on one critic’s list of the “best” of the year, most… [more]

The Goddamned: The Bible as You’ve Never Seen it Before

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Thu, 12 November 2015

Anyone of a certain inclination who has read the Old Testament can’t help but come away thinking of it as pretty “metal”, to coin a phrase. Fights to the death, plagues, burning cities, vendettas, and… [more]

Southern Bastards #11: Serpents

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Thu, 8 October 2015

Each new issue of Southern Bastards seems to get deeper, more thoughtful and more artful in its rendering of the American south. The book has always had a wonderful ability to capture the Southern Gothic… [more]

Southern Bastards #10: A Force of Nature

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Thu, 30 July 2015

Coach Big is dead. That fact no doubt affects people in lots of different ways in Craw County, and the larger mythic universe of Southern Bastards. But before we get to all of that, the… [more]

Southern Bastards #9: Past, Present and Football

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Thu, 18 June 2015

“But the Good Lord always gives us another chance, don’t he?” -Coach Big Here were are again, back in the tangled thicket of history, race, sex, sports, ribs and morality that populate the literate and… [more]

The Bastards of Southern Bastards #8

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Sun, 12 April 2015

One question that keeps returning as we enjoy Jason Aaron and Jason Latour’s Southern Bastards is how much of it is specifically Southern, and how much qualifies as simple old-fashioned bastardry? Not being a southerner… [more]

Southern Bastards #5-7: Changes of Character

by Ian Dawe | in Reviews | Thu, 19 February 2015

Jason Aaron and Jason Latour are the George R. R. Martins of metaphorical realist fantasy comics set in the south. They aren’t afraid to take sudden dramatic right turns, to lose characters that you would… [more]

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, This Probably Would’ve Been Better: A Review of Aaron and Cassaday’s Star Wars #1

by Matthew Meylikhov | in Reviews | Fri, 6 February 2015

Star Wars #1 by Jason Aaron and John Cassaday has perhaps one of the best openings to a Star Wars comic ever. From that perfect blue font with those familiar opening words to the double-page… [more]