Rawbone #1-4 (of 4)

is a very visceral, violent pirate story, intricately researched and written by famed writer Jamie Delano and drawn by Max Fiumara for Avatar. It’s depraved and decadent, Delano playing the trick of placing modern expectations of another age at odds with the reality he portrays, more in line with current sexual practices. The old “the youngsters think they invented sex” approach, with the amusement of wrapping sordid talk in an older tongue, as it were. This is a very rough book yet somehow terribly pleasing; a remarkable example of the reader living a horrendous life vicariously, reveling in the surface joys and repugnancies it brings. Basically what every pirate fiction tries to do, Rawbone succeeds without compare, in the comics form at least. Comparable with Garth Ennis’ treatment of the zombie trope in . Explicit and mature content. All high quality Minutemen scans.

Jamie Delano cuts loose on a vicious pirate tale, delivering a bloody, terrifying vision of a world on the high-seas! But these are not the family friendly kind, these are the roughneck, stealing, heartless bastards of the 17th century Caribbean. A rebellious young women named La Sirena has built a haven for pirates called Puerto de los Suenos (Port of Dreams). It is a good life for those that want to live outside of the crushing boot heel of the Church of England. But the church is a powerful enemy. It expends a lot of its pillaged wealth to bring about the downfall of the pirate scum who are preying upon merchant vessels. Thus, the legend of La Sirena's life will begin, one drip of blood at a time, while the British garrison waits for the pirate to slip into their ambush, tension building as seeming supernatural forces pick off the forces of law one by one, and imagination runs terror through the survivor's veins. With art by Max Fiumara (BlackGas), this is a dark story of misery not be missed and is available with a regular cover fully-painted by Felipe Massafera and a wraparound by Max Fiumara. --

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