6/23/2023 0 Comments Roughneck lemireThey’re still my favourite Lemire comics and, after many years since then working for Marvel, DC and Image producing books of, ahem, varying quality (“Extraordinary X-Men” – what an ironic title!), I’m delighted that he’s returned to the style and genre of storytelling that he’s best at so successfully with this book. Lemire entered comics with a fine debut in Lost Dogs but rightly made his name with the Essex County trilogy, a series of quietly compelling slice-of-life dramas strongly imbued with the character of his native Canada. Yeah, fucking grim, eh? Roughneck is also Jeff Lemire’s best book in years. When his estranged junkie sister Bethy drops by, pregnant and addicted with a shiner from her drug-dealing boyfriend, the two must confront their shared past trauma together to find their future. Thrown out of professional hockey for allowing his rage to get the better of him, Derek lives in a small Canadian town spending most of his time surly drunk and picking fights with anybody. Derek Ouelette is a has-been hockey goon.
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