Jason Aaron, born and raised in Alabama, spares his home state no mercy and suggests that corruption can swallow up such insular communities. The consequences that follow are both unsettling and ugly but, for the county’s residents, violence is clearly part of their souls. Fate plays a huge role in the story as it, and the pull of Earl’s genes, conspire to twist him into the man he never wanted to be. How this stick, long buried, comes into Earl’s possession adds an intriguing and welcome flavour of the mythical to the tale. The iconic big stick was (both literally and metaphorically) wielded by Earl’s daddy, a legendary and brutal lawman. Here Was A Man riffs on the premise of “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The soft speaker in this case is one Earl Tubb, an angry old man returning to Craw County, the Deep South locale he had abandoned forty years previously.
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