Bitter Root #3 Review

Writers: Chuck Brown and David F. Walker / Artist: Sanford Greene / Image Comics Bitter Root #3 slams it’s foot on the gas, and it ain’t lookin’ back. This issue moved faster than its two predecessors, mainly because basically all of our characters are dealing with some conflict at the moment. Cullen, Blink, and Ma Etta are wrestling with Berg whose been infected by something even stronger than a Jinoo. None of the roots are working and they fear they’re gonna lose him. Apart from the uncertainty of his future, this scene provided a lot of action for the group. Berg is a big dude, and right now he’s got no conscience, so after Blink and Cullen got that ass whooped, Ma Etta had to step up like Yoda in Attack of the Clones and throw that cane to the side and replace it with a fist. She bout that life for real for real. Hints had been sprinkled about her badassery in the first two issues, but I still wasn’t expecting this type of reveal. She’s got all the smoke, and she’s ready to hand it out if necessary. Simultaneously in Harlem, the cops have taken to the streets to look for answers about two murdered cops from issue two. We know, along with a few cops that witnessed the murders, that they were killed by Jinoo. But Jinoo aren’t common knowledge. They’re not even hearsay within the neighborhood. So, telling your captain that it was monsters that killed his cops might result in you getting a billy club to the head. And because this is 1924, who do you think they’re gonna blam…