Southern Bastards #17 Review

Writer: Jason Aaron / Artist: Jason Latour / Image Comics SOUTHERN BASTARDS BAAAAAAAACKKKK. The Brothers Jason, y’all were gone too long, fam. Don’t do us like that again please. So yeah, our favorite Football Murder Book is back and just as brutal as when it left. A quick centering before we get into this review: Consider the fact that Southern Bastard’s first issue released in April of 2014, well before any of us (right up to election night) thought a Donald Trump presidency was possible. The last issue before hiatus came out just around (but obviously written well before) Trump’s inauguration. Since then, we’ve seen a heightened profile and unfortunate importance of the confederacy’s role brought into mainstream view. This book is by no means on the level of critique that Confederate is for a plethora of reasons, but it is a book focused on a part of the country that wishes for the “South to Rise again.” By the time you read this review or the comic book itself, who knows what other crazy shit will have transpired down in Charlottesville, but I do know that I don’t envy the creators: a couple of really talented artists who have been writing this book for over three years with a new and profound lens that their book my be viewed through. As for the comic book itself, yes, it’s good to have this book back, circumstances aside. Coach Boss committed one of his more grievous acts in the last issue and the chickens be coming home to roost. With a vengeance. Coach Boss has enem…