BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #2 (OF 3)
BAND OF BARDS
STORY: Austin Allen Hamblin
ART: Mariana Meira
COLORS: Mariana Meira
LETTERS: John Ira Thomas
EDITOR: Chuck Satterlee
COVER: Marcus Jimenez
VARIANT COVER: Scott Twells
Color, $4.99 U.S. (October 2024)
"BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #2" is currently available for preorder at your local comic book shop with the "Final Order Cutoff" (FOC) date being the end of August. The comic book arrives in October 2024.
Big Guns Stupid Rednecks is a three-issue miniseries written by Austin Allen Hamblin and drawn and colored by Mariana Meira. Published by Band of Bards, the series focuses on a retired lawman who fights to the death in order to entertain an alien television audience. Letterer John Ira Thomas completes the series' creative team.
Big Guns Stupid Rednecks focuses on Clint, a retired police detective who was investigating a string of unexplained disappearances in the southern part of the United States. One of the missing was Clay, Clint's younger brother by twelve years. The search resulted in Clint being abducted... by aliens. Intergalactic cable's biggest hit show is “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks,” and the alien producers need a steady supply of rednecks, which they get by kidnapping humans. Clint is the latest combatant.
Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2 opens with current BGSR champion, Clint, dispatching another redneck. Clint maintains a behind-the-scenes diary of the show. He struggles to please Oweful, the alien creator of BGSR, while still fighting for his life in the arena. Oweful wants bigger ratings, and comes up with the “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks” championship to juice the ratings. Little does Clint know that someone is conspiring behind his back, nor does he know that there is a huge surprise in store for him.
THE LOWDOWN: Series writer Austin Allen Hamblin hooked me up with a PDF review copy of Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2. It is the second Band of Bards publication that I have read.
I continue to be pleasantly surprised by Big Guns Stupid Rednecks. Hamblin has recreated some of the irreverent and edgy humor that readers found in such venerable sci-fi/fantasy anthologies as Heavy Metal and 2000AD over the last five decades. Hamblin offers science fiction with no problem in loving the flavors that fantasy can add to it.
Mariana Meira's art is stylish and visually appealing. Her storytelling is solid and captures the exciting nature of Hamblin's script. Meira's menagerie of alien beings also recalls the early years of Jaime Hernandez's Locas stories in Love and Rockets. It is in that strangeness of aliens that meets with the strangeness of outsider humanity.
I hope Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2 ends up being an unexpected hit, the same as I hope that the first issue blows up when it is shortly released. Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #2 is not perfect, but it is perfect for a comics market that needs an injection of cool weirdness.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of outrageous sci-fi comedy and of 2000AD will want to give Big Guns Stupid Rednecks a try.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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