As of late, the duo of Jason Aaron and Jason Latour have diverged from the pattern of their first two arcs on Southern Bastards, which followed a respective character each, by doing single issues that provide new focus on specific characters while still keeping the ongoing story plodding along.
As comic book readership becomes ever more aware of problems within popular media, it’s been harder and harder to find a book that isn’t problematic. Kelly Sue DeConnick’s ongoing independent book,Bitch Planet, is a gem in the slowly improving realm of comic books and geek culture.
Spider-Gwen #2 Written by Jason Latour Art by Robbi Rodriguez Colors by Rico Renzi Published by Marvel Comics Let’s be up front: Spider-Gwen #2 is good. Better than good. Right now, the creative team behind Marvel’s flashiest new Spider-character is building her world and showing it off to us. They’re setting up big things and …
2014 was an incredibly rewarding year to be a comics reader. Veteran creators, like Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek, and Matt Wagner continued to churn out some of the best work of their career while new creators, like Noelle Stevenson, Babs Tarr, and Tula Lotay had very strong starts. Marvel and DC published their fair share of events, including Original Sin, …
After the shocking conclusion of the first arc, which consisted of the brutal, animalistic murder of a prominent character, we return to Craw County with a glimpse into the past of Euless “Coach” Boss. We dive into the life of the legendary high school football coach and ringleader of plenty of illegal activities taking place in Craw County. Via flashbacks, readers are provided a window into a few incidents that helped shape Coach into the man he is today, And now that Earl Tubbs is dead, Euless deals with the aftermath of what he’s done.
Southern Bastards #4 Story by: Jason Aaron Art by: Jason Latour Cover by: Jason Latour Jason Aaron and Jason Latour began working together four years ago when Latour teamed up with Aaron to illustrate an issue of the critically acclaimed Vertigo series Scalped, and they would later collaborate on various Wolverine projects for Marvel, sharing …
Southern Bastards #3 Written by Jason Aaron Art by Jason Latour Published by Image Comics The showdown in Craw County has begun, and Earl Tubb is finding out just how difficult it’s going to be to take down Coach Boss. Southern Bastards has been a critical darling, and this issue lives up to …
At its core, Southern Bastards is a series that is about the difficult relationship each person has with the place that they grew up. You can leave it behind, you can hate it, you can curse it as much as you want, but a part of you is always going to be stuck there. For Earl Tubb, he’s stuck there, and try as he might, he keeps digging himself into a situation that he knows he ought to run away from as fast as he can.
Southern Bastards #1 Written by Jason Aaron Drawn and colored by Jason Latour Published by Image Comics It is not what Jason Aaron and Jason Latour do but it is how they do it that makes Southern Bastards #1 one of Image Comics strongest debuts. The story of Earl Tubb, an old man returning to …
Sledgehammer 44 # 1 Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi Art by Jason Latour Colors by Dave Stewart Cover by Mike Mignola Published by Dark Horse Comics Comics fandom does seem to have taken quite readily to this whole auteurism thing, haven’t they? And very few creators have been as rabidly fetishised more …