Publisher: Image
Writer: Donny Cates
Artist: Lisandro Estherren
Colourist: Dee Cunniffe
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

 

Redneck #3 is a mash-up of hillbillies and vampires.

See what they did with the title there? Red necks, geddit? It can be taken two different ways and it still makes sense. Donny Cates must still be hugging himself for coming up with that one.

Seems there’s good vampires and really miffed vampires in them there hills. In Redneck #3 the miffed vamps have gone on a rampage because, to quote good vamp, Bartlett: “Slap’s dead. Cattle’s dead. BBQ shop’s in ashes. Boys are gone. JV’s given up, and there at a table, dealin’ stud, sat the dirty, mangy dog that named him Sue.”

Ooops, sorry, seemed to have slipped into Johnny Cash mode there for a second, but that’s what reviewing Redneck #3 can do. Anyway, apart from Mr Cash all the rest is true. JV seems like he’s the head honcho because he wears the Stetson and I’m betting he’s the one who’s gonna put all this to rights – eventually. In the meantime, Bartlett has to have a chat with his Granpa, which doesn’t sound all that scary until you realise that Granpa is actually…but why should I spoil all your fun? Let’s just whisper the word “Nosferatu” and leave it at that.

Meantime in Redneck #3, Seamus and Greg, two of the miffed vamps, are out for blood, literally, and on the trail of the humans who kicked this whole shindig off by attacking the vamps and burning down their BBQ shop etc.

If you like westerns, you’ll like this. If you like vampires, you’ll like this. If you just like comic books, you’ll love this. Redneck #3 is rated M for Mature but it should just be rated A for Awesome.

And the final panel on the last page of Redneck #3? Well, if that doesn’t blow you away, you are obviously dead from the neck up (tee, hee).

 

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker