In a neo-Western, I couldn't ignore my urge on this, the slow, deep & intense one. Similar in ways to Criminal of Ed & Sean, a legendary series, Jacob .. who joined them in 2019, and surely that gave him a lot of experience, to do this beautifully interesting story along with Chris Condon, who seems have a lot of investments on his characters.
The sheriff is an old man who has the knowledge & experience of this constant cycle of cruelty around these parts, so at the beginning we get to see him watch a suicide by a person he knew, but he just walked away to report it...
This stretched to the other main character, our little friend, damaged by a cruel past, friends & family. And maybe more, he ran from all of it years ago, struggling to sort out his anger and frustration, with gorgeous artwork by Jacob, he delivered every single one of them... that's the story... about mistakes, past, anger & choices and more.
Before going any further to the lines of the story, I want to talk about the artwork a little bit, Jacob seemed from the start trying to do his own style, to be simple & powerful in his own technique. So the most noticeable thing is his way of delivering emotions, along with the words of Chris. The ones that capture the feeling in a wide cinematic panel for the surrounding, and move it after that little by little as if we're seeing the character moving in front of us. Beautiful and a fine start for him.
Before going any further to the lines of the story, I want to talk about the artwork a little bit, Jacob seemed from the start trying to do his own style, to be simple & powerful in his own technique. So the most noticeable thing is his way of delivering emotions, along with the words of Chris. The ones that capture the feeling in a wide cinematic panel for the surrounding, and move it after that little by little as if we're seeing the character moving in front of us. Beautiful and a fine start for him.
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The story... at first, at the very beginning.. we're following an old man, the sheriff. And he's getting a call to kill a rattlesnake on someone's porch, it was funny, her lazy husband (I think) won't get up to kill it... the whole event was really funny. The second event carries him to a woman arguing loudly with her man and he just came to take back the dish of his wife. To look around a little bit, this is the world of his surroundings, his life. But after that, two major events.. each one of them is more terrifying than the other, one from glimpses of a past, the other is the previous man who was arguing, suicide in front of the sheriff, and the dish almost buried with all the blood.
A heavy introduction to That Taxes Blood, to just see how funny, ugly, normal & bloody this world is. Then with part 2 we discover that this is nothing to what's coming, to the actual story of Vol. 1: A Brother's Conscience.
The story just kept going and breaking a wall after a wall.. to finally reach the ultimate rage & desperation. Each part kept going more violent than the previous one to get into a blood bath... anger. And yet again, in the end the sheriff just took a lovely cat with him, and gone back to his home.
A heavy introduction to That Taxes Blood, to just see how funny, ugly, normal & bloody this world is. Then with part 2 we discover that this is nothing to what's coming, to the actual story of Vol. 1: A Brother's Conscience.
The story just kept going and breaking a wall after a wall.. to finally reach the ultimate rage & desperation. Each part kept going more violent than the previous one to get into a blood bath... anger. And yet again, in the end the sheriff just took a lovely cat with him, and gone back to his home.
I'm only the old man who's smiling because of a cat ...
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