Adam Sandler is great, and the whole thing plays out like some weird cocaine high. And while I missed all of the Best Picture nominees for 2019, I did see “Uncut Gems,” and lemme tell you: Go see that. I’m not someone who makes it a point to see all the Best Picture nominees in a given year (Let’s be honest: The Academy is full of s***, and when you see one period biopic, you’ve seen ’em all.), but I will check out an art movie when I get the chance. “I always have hope that we’re going to get our shit together, not just as a state,” Aaron told me. I understand it - s***, I live it as much as a privileged white guy can - and it still crushes me. That’s what the first arc means to me as I reread it now. We won’t be able to rely on old white men to do it. Lasting change in the South will not come easy, and it will not be immediate. And it subverts expectations in the best way. The first arc, if you haven’t read it, is in serious contention for the best four issues ever published by Image Comics. The Breezeway tackles JJ Abrams, Hill House, more “It’s not going to be that kind of story.” By the end of the story, you find out, it’s not exactly ‘Walking Tall.’ “And I had a general idea of what that first arc would be with a character like Buford Pusser showing up and coming in to clean up the out-of-control county with his big stick. “It just came from us sitting down and saying, ‘Well, all right, if we’re going to work together, what are we going to do?’ I had that idea for the crime boss football coach, and I had a title, ‘Southern Bastards,’” Aaron said to me in October 2015 on creating the series with Latour. That Aaron and Latour would be willing to let their baby fade away into the darkness.īut this ain’t no “All-Star Batman and Robin.” “Bastards” is coming back, and sooner than most folk think.Īaron was my first big-time comic creator interview, and while it was right around the time he was starting his run on “Star Wars,” of course we talked “Bastards.” From 2014-18, the fellas put out 20 issues - 20 great, tight, gripping issues - only for the series to go dark last year.Īt some point, I think we all got stuck in some bog of pessimism - that because we hadn’t gotten word on the series, it simply wasn’t coming back. In putting it together, I went back to reread “Southern Bastards,” the incredible football and crime Image book from Jasons Aaron and Latour. This episode will be about Alabama - my home state - and some of its authors, its problems and its f***** up politics. If the Lord is willin’ and the creek don’t rise, next week will see the second episode of “The Breezeway,” the monthly comics ’n’ more podcast I started because I wasn’t getting enough invites to be on podcasts. Cross promotion means connection in conjunction!
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