{"product_id":"southern-bastards-volume-1-here-was-a-man","title":"Jason Aaron: Southern Bastards Volume 1: Here Was a Man [2014] paperback","description":"Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick.\u003cbr\u003eEuless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for\u003cbr\u003etrophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And\u003cbr\u003ethey're just two of the folks you'll meet in Castor County, Alabama, home of\u003cbr\u003eBoss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than you've ever\u003cbr\u003eseen!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What\u003cbr\u003edoes old Earl Tubb do when he returns home to Craw County, Ala., only to find\u003cbr\u003ethe place a veritable criminal fiefdom run by Euless Boss, the local high school\u003cbr\u003efootball coach? Why, pick up the stick helpfully cleaved by lightning from a\u003cbr\u003etree growing out of his daddy's grave and start meting out justice just like his\u003cbr\u003efather, the old sheriff, did. In the cleaning-up-the-dirty-old-town\u003cbr\u003eSouthern-fried pulper, writer Aaron (Scalped) and artist Jason Latour (Django\u003cbr\u003eUnchained) spread around no more story than is absolutely necessary, and most of\u003cbr\u003eit involves people being at the wrong end of a stick, baseball bat, or even (in\u003cbr\u003ean early fight scene) a deep-fryer basket. Both Jasons hail from the South, as\u003cbr\u003ethey discuss in a particularly bighearted introduction, and so likely feel\u003cbr\u003eunencumbered by concerns about overdosing on cliches. Thus, the\u003cbr\u003ehigh-impact pages are strewn with bruising high school football, sweet tea,\u003cbr\u003ebarbecue, trucker caps, and snarling rednecks. The story, in which Tubb clobbers\u003cbr\u003ehis way through throngs of underlings to get at Boss, is no more complicated\u003cbr\u003ethan a redo of Walking Tall. But there's a thread of something deeper, bloodier,\u003cbr\u003eand more resonant that often transcends the usual psychotic-redneck shtick,\u003cbr\u003eaided in no small part by Latour's spare, elegant art.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers\u003cbr\u003eWeekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aaron, Jason \u0026 Latour, Jason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44667530051874,"sku":"9781632150165","price":10.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/aaron-jason-latour-jason-southern-bastards-volume-1-here-was-a-man-9781632150165-40857606553890.jpg?v=1678822532","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/southern-bastards-volume-1-here-was-a-man","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}