A review by jakekilroy
A History of Violence by Vince Locke, John Wagner

4.0

This thing moved swiftly and sweetly, and while there may be a lingering want for a larger story, I gotta say, it's a pretty fascinating and fun burst of violent upending. Main character's easy to root for, villains are easy to wish obliteration, and somehow the family just easily understands that their lives forever changed in an instant (hardest part to get over, honestly). There's more I suppose I desired from all this — to see him train, to see him come to be what he is and was, to see how it all unfolds in a big lotus flower design of earned revenge — but, simply put, it rips. It rips nevertheless and it likely does so because it has no need to paint a big picture, really, when it's the small town rupture that drives it all home so fast and radical.