Southern Bastards #9

Jason Aaron and Jason Latour's Southern Bastards #9 opens the "Homecoming" arc with a cover that plunges you straight into Craw County's obsessive football culture — a red-uniformed player in full gear dominates the foreground against a backdrop of local business ads, the Craw County High School football schedule, and bold block lettering spelling out "FOOTBALL SCHEDULE." The deep crimson palette and collage-style design give the whole thing the feel of a small-town program soaked in something darker than Friday-night pride. If you've been following this gritty Image series, issue #9 promises exactly the kind of layered, atmospheric storytelling that makes Southern Bastards so hard to put down.