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A review by crookedtreehouse
Southern Bastards Volume 3: Homecoming by Jason Aaron, Jason Latour
5.0
This series keeps surprising me. I was fairly sure, based on the end of volume two and the name of this volume, where this story would be going. I wasn't wrong. At the end of this volume, that still appears to be the direction, but there was a lot of story in this volume. Instead of focusing mainly on one character, the way the previous volumes did, this collection offers six different vantage points circling the main story.
It didn't feel like a story spinning its wheels, or adding unnecessary motivations to side characters, it really felt like Aaron was letting us know that, yes, this story is about people and their relationships to each other, and to football, and racim, and violence, but it's mostly about The American South. It's about the town where Tubbs arrived at the beginning of the story, but also about the town he came from, which, it turns out, isn't much better.
Jason Aaron and [a:Jason Latour|4456310|Jason Latour|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1488513529p2/4456310.jpg] have done a superb job showing this story from many different perspectives, almost all of them troubling and violent, and seemingly honest.
I recommend it to anyone looking for a moral play where everybody imagines there a hero but nobody actually is. Yet.
It didn't feel like a story spinning its wheels, or adding unnecessary motivations to side characters, it really felt like Aaron was letting us know that, yes, this story is about people and their relationships to each other, and to football, and racim, and violence, but it's mostly about The American South. It's about the town where Tubbs arrived at the beginning of the story, but also about the town he came from, which, it turns out, isn't much better.
Jason Aaron and [a:Jason Latour|4456310|Jason Latour|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1488513529p2/4456310.jpg] have done a superb job showing this story from many different perspectives, almost all of them troubling and violent, and seemingly honest.
I recommend it to anyone looking for a moral play where everybody imagines there a hero but nobody actually is. Yet.