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REVIEW: Meet Roberta Tubb in ‘Southern Bastards #14′

 
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Story by: Jason Aaron
 
Art by: Jason Latour
 
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Southern Bastards #14 served as a sort of a denouement of the third story arc “Homecoming”. This issue can also serve as a great hors d’oeuvre for the upcoming fourth arc since the setting takes place outside Crow County, where Roberta Tubb finally made her formal entrance as the possible avenger of her father’s death. […]

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Posted May 13, 2016 by

 
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SouthernBastards 14 covSouthern Bastards #14 served as a sort of a denouement of the third story arc “Homecoming”. This issue can also serve as a great hors d’oeuvre for the upcoming fourth arc since the setting takes place outside Crow County, where Roberta Tubb finally made her formal entrance as the possible avenger of her father’s death.

Technically speaking, this finale can be read alone without any much back stories (or issues) to follow. Readers can see some serious traces of racism/racial divide and prejudice in most of the pages. The language of the South is brimming with political incorrectness and lots of sarcasm that really place the paradox of the Southern character. Regardless, writer Jason Aaron gives us how tough his new female character really is. Could she be the long-awaiting potent for her father’s death? Could she finally put the end of Coach Boss’s bloody and iron fist regime? Could she find allies in the County she calls home despite its bloody and shady history? Or, are the Jasons really have readers really invested to the degree of screwing us in the later part of the Southern Bastards saga akin to what many viewers felt/feel in George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones? Despite the delays, this fourteenth issue is definitely worth the wait!

As for Jason Latour’s art, he remains on top of his artistic game. He continues to be consistent since the rest of the third story arc. Even the punches and kicks Roberta delivered as hard felt to the bones. The paneling is basically fundamental, making a great visual reading pleasure in the midst of brutality, profanity and overtly racism. The coloring remains topnotch despite the three color scheme. But the blood and beating is spot on to present how strong Roberta truly is.

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The finale is both a satisfying read that serves as a prologue to a more intense story arc as well as the foreshadowing on how things will become for the future Southern Bastards arcs to come. Indeed, it does not have the sheer intensity, drama, and impact it possesses from last issue (the true climatic part) and the delay that somehow weakened the interest a bit, but Southern Bastards #14 nevertheless reads (and tastes) like a good chicken chitlin that tastes so good, you crave for a juicy triple burger patty with cheese and bacon in-between.


Paul Ramos

 


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