Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. Euless Boss is a
high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies
and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And
they're just two of the folks you'll meet in Castor County, Alabama,
home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than
you've ever seen!
"What does old Earl Tubb do when he returns home to Craw County, Ala.,
only to find the place a veritable criminal fiefdom run by Euless Boss,
the local high school football coach? Why, pick up the stick helpfully
cleaved by lightning from a tree growing out of his daddy's grave and
start meting out justice just like his father, the old sheriff, did. In
the cleaning-up-the-dirty-old-town Southern-fried pulper, writer Aaron
(Scalped) and artist Jason Latour (Django Unchained) spread around no
more story than is absolutely necessary, and most of it involves people
being at the wrong end of a stick, baseball bat, or even (in an early
fight scene) a deep-fryer basket. Both Jasons hail from the South, as
they discuss in a particularly bighearted introduction, and so likely
feel unencumbered by concerns about overdosing on clichés. Thus, the
high-impact pages are strewn with bruising high school football, sweet
tea, barbecue, trucker caps, and snarling rednecks. The story, in which
Tubb clobbers his way through throngs of underlings to get at Boss, is
no more complicated than a redo of Walking Tall. But there's a thread of
something deeper, bloodier, and more resonant that often transcends the
usual psychotic-redneck shtick, aided in no small part by Latour's
spare, elegant art." - Publishers Weekly
