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dulfbarglin's review
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
museoffire's review
3.0
Thinks "The Sopranos" but with white supremacist secessionists instead of the mob.
Grace Briggs is the matriarch of the Briggs family and the newly crowned leader of Briggs Land, the single largest antigovernment secessionist movement in history. She's managed (barely) to wrest control from her incarcerated husband who's doing life for attempting to assasinate the president but now she has to bring her son's in line and not all of them like the idea of a woman, let alone their mother being in charge.
This was my first straight up crime comic and I'm certainly intrigued enough to find out what happens in volume two. I think Brian Wood was probably going for a more tense atmosphere than what came across but by and large he does pretty well with introducing a pretty hefty cast of characters while simultaneously telling a pretty hair raising story involving Grace's eldest son attempting to buy a very lucrative hardware store from an owner who doesn't want to sell.
The art work is good, not great. I tend to lean to more detailed with graphic novels especially when it comes to faces because you've got a really limited framework to convey emotion so I always feel like you have to work doubly hard to really nail the character's reactions to things. This is all a little too scattered for me, like someone with a nervous tick was doing the drawing.
As I said the story is solid just not quite as riveting as I think it wants to be. But I'll definitely pick up number 2 when it arrives.
Grace Briggs is the matriarch of the Briggs family and the newly crowned leader of Briggs Land, the single largest antigovernment secessionist movement in history. She's managed (barely) to wrest control from her incarcerated husband who's doing life for attempting to assasinate the president but now she has to bring her son's in line and not all of them like the idea of a woman, let alone their mother being in charge.
This was my first straight up crime comic and I'm certainly intrigued enough to find out what happens in volume two. I think Brian Wood was probably going for a more tense atmosphere than what came across but by and large he does pretty well with introducing a pretty hefty cast of characters while simultaneously telling a pretty hair raising story involving Grace's eldest son attempting to buy a very lucrative hardware store from an owner who doesn't want to sell.
The art work is good, not great. I tend to lean to more detailed with graphic novels especially when it comes to faces because you've got a really limited framework to convey emotion so I always feel like you have to work doubly hard to really nail the character's reactions to things. This is all a little too scattered for me, like someone with a nervous tick was doing the drawing.
As I said the story is solid just not quite as riveting as I think it wants to be. But I'll definitely pick up number 2 when it arrives.
francomega's review
4.0
Solid opening for a new series about the wife of a jailed secessionist/white supremacist/terrorist who decides she needs to take over the family business in order to save it. Of course, not everyone in her community--or family--likes the idea of answering to a woman.
revslick's review
3.0
White nationalist group, white supremacist affiliations, federal investigation, familial criminal leadership restructuring - not a bad start.
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