Rabbit’s Badass Song #3 is a comic created and written by Christopher J. Elston & Chassity Lassiter with pencils and inks by Halil Mete and colors by PH Gomes. Rabbit and Bunny take a stand inside a barn as a showdown years in the making takes place. This is an action-filled comic with story strewn about while maintaining a degree of mystery. Our leading man is Rabbit, a black man who is on the path of revenge for reasons we don’t fully understand yet. Our leading lady is Bunny, a white woman who has known Rabbit from childhood and is currently dating him. The villains in this are also from Rabbit’s past but we don’t exactly know the role they played. The last issue ended at this barn and this one begins there. In the midst of this battle things are shouted which allude to information we aren’t privy to yet. We are able to glean the gist of it using context clues. This is a rural southern(Mississippi) environment with the area looking dirt road country. The action here gets explosive and bloody with some goriness. The whole combat sequence is very intense as we are unaware of who will come out on the other end. The dialogue features southern sayings and you’ll end up reading it all with a southern accent. No wordy pages. This is an issue full of excitement and dripping with the essence of the south for better or worse. The ending will have you salivating for the next installment.

            The art here is black-and-white with shadows doing a lot of heavy-lifting. I’m not sure if I would classify this series as noir content-wise but it certainly has the look down. Though we don’t get too wide a view of the surroundings due to the focus on the barn we do see things like equipment strewn about and the thickness of the woods which helps set the tone of the scene. The expression level here is about average due to shadowing and the fact that the lead character wears a mask. When we can see some emotions they are done pretty well. The action scenes flow with maybe some slight moments of confusion as it might take you a few extra seconds to know what you’re looking at. There are bullets flying and things get bloody with some light gore.

“Is this worth reading?”

Yes.

“Would I like this?”

If you like stories taking place in the Deep South starring a black man and dealing with themes of revenge and racism this is for you.

“What would this comic’s film rating be?”

R. We see quite a bit of blood.

“Could I get a quote from the comic?”

“I get it. You want revenge. Hell, I would, too.”

 

Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flashdelirium/rabbits-badass-song-3/description

Unboxing Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljXvuXqEDxs

***IN-DEPTH COMIC STATS BELOW***

Probably Contains Spoilers

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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 21

Violent Pages: 9, for 43% of the comic

Sexy Pages: 0, for 0% of the comic

 

**The levels below aren’t necessarily maintained throughout the whole comic, but they were definitely reached**

 

Violence Level – 3

“Wasn’t no tussling at all.”

“Sometimes you gotta hit somebody.”

“I’m getting charged with how many counts of assault?”

“This was a tournament arc.”

“All my life I had to fight.”

 

Gore Level – 3

“The only thing leaking out your face is tears.”

“Looks like somebody spilled some ketchup.”

“Might need to soak that up with a bath towel.”

“That isn’t supposed to be outside the body.”

“This is a slaughterhouse.”

 

Death Level – 2

“And everybody lived happily ever after.”

“We might have gone to a couple funerals.”

“It just LOOKS like a serial killer was here.”

“Yeah this was a tragedy.”

“Think Gettysburg.”

 

Porn Level – 1

“Everybody kept their clothes on.”

“I guess it was too hot for a bra.”

“Sometimes you got to let everything air out.”

“This is like late night Cinemax in the early 2000’s.”

“Oh. This is porn.”