When you review over 400 comics in a year and read an additional few hundred more, you look for certain things. Freshness is great in eggs, asparagus and storylines.
With Punk Mambo #1, the new title from Valiant, it’s a welcome blend of freshness and more freshness.
Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Adam Gorham (with colours by José Villarubia) bring us more than mere freshness here, of course. There’s a double helping of horror, to boot. Punk Mambo is set in New Orleans, where a young female punk, sporting an attitude, flaming pink mohawk hair, and a leather jacket battles evil. With her magic connection to the Louisiana spirits, Punk Mambo wades into confrontations, certain of her strengths. Until her spirits abandon her during one battle, leaving her in a tough situation!
This title takes tropes, cliches, and familiar themes, and flips them on their butts. It’s all new, and the volume is turned up, the graphics are outstanding, and the mood is tumultuous.
It’s Sex Pistols mixed with butt-kicking bayou voodoo. Pink Punk Mambo is a mixed up woman, but her street smarts alone and how she manages to ‘work it’ are reason enough for indie comic fans to search out this miniseries.
Valiant, Punk Mambo #1(of 5), $3.99 for 20 pages of content. Rated Mature
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