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Pigs #1

By Dan Horn
September 15, 2011 - 16:45

What happens when a KGB sleeper cell in Cuba ages beyond usefulness? Their children take up their mantle, of course.

In Ben McCool and Nate Cosby's Pigs, second-generation Soviet agents are mourning the natural death of one of their predecessors when they are suddenly activated by a mysterious stranger, uttering the codewords: "It's time to die for your country."

This first issue alternates between glimpses of the disenfranchised KGB cell, almost child-like in their boredom and sibling rivalries, in Cuba and a cleverly implemented police interrogation of a Russian woman in Florida that nicely establishes the foundation for the series. McCool and Cosby begin smartly, heaping on the intrigue and giving readers a slow climb sensation to the peak of the roller coaster before the very last page releases us into what promises to be a downward spiral into absurd violence and absolute madness. Tamura's art has a free-hand charm to it, a gritty ugliness that's perfect for the storytelling it accompanies.

Unfortunately, this is little more than a pilot episode of the new Image Comics series, and there's not much else to say about it other than it's really whet my appetite for more. Pigs is sure to be a raunchy, raucous espionage romp.

Rating: 8.5 /10

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