by Ed Brisson (Author), Adam Gorham (Artist)
Publisher: Image
Comics (September 20, 2016)
Softcover, 120
pages
The book is listed
as volume one, but this is a complete story unto itself. No further editions
needed. I believe it was meant to be a series of interconnected crime stories,
maybe set in the same town, or with various generations of criminals
overlapping, but the series came out in 2016 and there is no sight of any other
story arcs, so we must be content with the one, which is worth a look.
An
ex-con and former drug addict and his junkie wife are trying hard to go
straight for the sake of their daughter. But walking the straight path is
easier said than done, especially when both of them are working dead-end jobs.
When threatened with losing his daughter, the ex-con falls into old habits,
stumbling through a string of desperate criminal acts whose repercussions
quickly become deadly serious.
Well
done crime novel, where you keep hoping the inevitable end doesn’t happen.
However, the aftermath is a little too upbeat considering the violent road it
took to get there. The junkie wife- sorry, ex-junkie who has a relapse - comes
across as a little too preachy, talking down to the main character about his
life, whereas she made the exact same bad decisions as he did. The art is
brutal, capturing the fast-paced story in perfect form. Well worth a look.
For more readings, try books by Rex Hurst.
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