Gasolina #1 Review: A New Cinematic Comic from Image

Writer: Sean Mackiewicz / Artists: Mat Lopes, Niko Walter / Image Comics Note: For a comic about a husband/wife couple, we put our resident husband/wife reviewing team, Aisha and Frantz, on the job. Aisha Jordan: Disclaimer, I don’t read comics, but I love comic storylines or else why would I be here. So for this Bonnie and Clyde badass duo, I’m teaming up with my more seasoned comic book reader husband. Frantz Jerome: Husband here. I reads comics, it’s kinda my thing. We about give y’all some insight on a new Image entry, Gasolina. AJ: Randy and Amalia, a husband and wife team working at a farm, burning infested crops. Where, and when? I’m getting ‘post-apocalyptic’ from the beginning here. Thoughts?

FJ: Definitely infested. Boll weevils are terrible little things, it looks like they are in South America though. Dope to see a Black man and Latinx woman as protagonists. It hasn’t been done quite like this before. They are a cute ass couple. AJ: I immediately think of Interstellar with the crops going bad! Remember, I’m a movie nerd… FJ: Kudos to the creative team for dropping us into this world a la Interstellar, with no idea of where we are or when. I enjoy having to piece how the world works in the same way we have to piece together how the characters navigate that world. I could see new readers asking, “where we at and what are we doing” at first glance though. AJ: You see the love between the two – a sweet couple just trying to get by, doing honest farm work and weird …