The Blood Brothers Mother #1 by Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso / Z-View

That’s one of the covers to The Blood Brothers Mother #1 by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso.  I say one of the covers, because there are variants available.  I selected the Eduardo Risso cover, since I’m a huge Risso fan and he did the art for the series.

Anything Azzarello and Risso team to create is worth more than a glance.  Best known for the award-winning series 100 Bullets, Azzarello and Risso should clear out more space on their mantles.  The Blood Brothers Mother is off to that great of a start.

Carter Cain is an outlaw.  Recently released after a five year stint in a Mexican prison, Carter has one thing on his mind.

Anna.

Carter’s gang is there to meet him when he’s released.  They’re ready to take up their old ways.  Easy money to be had by robbin’ and killin’.  But Carter has other plans.  They’ll get Anna and then return to the life.

The fact that Anna’s married with three young boys means nothing to Carter.  She’s his and he’ll have her.

Issue one of The Blood Brothers Mother starts as Carter Cain’s story.  But it’s not.  If anything it is the prologue to Anna’s boys’ story.

Azzarello and Risso’s first issue perfectly sets up a story of adventure and revenge.  The oversize format is justified by Risso’s stunning watercolors.

The Blood Brothers Mother #1 by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso rates 5 of 5 stars.