Doggybags One Shot - Mapple Squares #[nn]

Two armed figures stride down a blood-streaked small-town street — a blonde woman aiming a pistol and a broad-shouldered man in a red jacket clutching his own gun — while a crowd of grimly expressive faces looms in the smoky background above them, all set against the backdrop of a town that seems to revolve around "Mapple Squares: Nebraska's Finest Candy Since 1931." Hasteda and Chesnot deliver a pulpy, crime-soaked one-shot through the DoggyBags anthology label, wrapping small-town Americana in a gloriously gritty, deliberately retro package — right down to the "Disapproved by the Comics Code Authority" stamp worn as a badge of honor. If you enjoy your crime fiction with a darkly comic edge and a candy-coated veneer, this one-shot is hard to walk past.