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"Street Tiger" #1 from Amigo -
You gotta be tough to survive in Nam City. Tough as nails. The city is plagued by crime, organized and otherwise, along with an unhealthy dose of corruption. Lately, however, someone has been evening the odds. Some of the city's lowest lowlifes have been turning up dead. Way dead. As in, brutalized beyond belief. Who, or what is bringing Nam City's crime problem to its knees, one smashed-head at a time? There' a whisper, a rumor of a lone, vicious vigilante wearing a leather jacket with the image of a tiger emblazoned on the back...
Ertito Montana is a one-man gang, creating, writing and doing all the artistic duties in this violent crime-thriller, "Street Tiger." "Street Tiger" is a hodge-podge of a genre-bender: it is all at once a hard-boiled crime thriller, a mystery and an homage to the gory grindhouse films of yesteryear and those cool Hong Kong-made action films of the 1970s and 80s. So far, we know more about the bad guys that are trying to kill him (?), and the cops that are trying to stop him (?) than we know about the protagonist. All we know is that this vigilante is a one-person wrecking crew, with a tongue for tough-talk and a love for bashing in heads with his baseball bat...Negan-style. Actually, gun, bat or fists, it's all in a day's work for this heartless vigilante. While the premise is scintillating, the execution is about as lackluster as it can get. Heavy on the dialogue, which at times seems to be talking for the sake of talking, "Street Tiger" wastes a lot of space in the calm before the storm, using long set ups to accentuate the sudden and brutal violence. It's a strategy that Tarantino likes to use a lot in his films; however, in the comics medium, it's got to be done just right, or it becomes a bit boring. And "Street Tiger" #1 has a lot of lag time before the action pops off exactly twice in the book, but when the action starts, Ertito does indeed turn up the violence volume to "11." I wish that were all, but the art is VERY quirky. Ertito walks the line between amateurish and bizarre...It's an interesting technique that the eye both rejects and enjoys at the same time. While Amigo, headed up by the VERY gifted, El Torres, is an up and coming company that has given us a string of GREAT comics so far, unfortunately, "Street Tiger" doesn't look to be one of them.
RATING: 5.5 out of 10.
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