Sheriff “Big Bert” Tubb once cleaned up Craw County, Alabamawith an iron jaw and a big ol’ stick. But that was 40 years ago. When hisson, Earl Tubb, returns home to settle some family business, he finds hisdaddy’s grave unkempt, the stick he was buried with grown into a gnarledold tree, and Craw County in worse shape than ever. Then that tree gets struckby lightning. And suddenly Earl has a stick of his own. And some questionshe’d like answered.
The hit new crime series, Southern Bastards, returns for its secondvolume, as Jason Aaron (Scalped, Thor, Star Wars) and JasonLatour (Wolverine & the X-Men, Loose Ends) pull back thecurtain on the dark and seedy history of Craw County and its most famous andfeared resident, the high school football coach turned backwoods crime lord,Euless Boss. In a place where only bastards flourish, what does it take to bethe biggest, meanest, most powerful bastard of them all? Only Coach Boss knows.But if I was you, I wouldn't ask him.
Collects Southern Bastards #5-8.

Visual artist(s): Jason Latour