El Peso Hero Stands up against Mexico’s Cartels, Corrupt Officials, and Human Traffickers
Rio Bravo Comics is currently running a Kickstarter to get their comic series El Peso Hero out to the public.
El Peso Hero “is heavily influenced by the modern day challenges people from both sides of the U.S-Mexican border face. The main story is centered on “El Peso Hero” – a rogue hero who is standing up against Mexico’s cartels, corrupt officials and human traffickers. The results are often destructive and deadly.”
The team includes Hector Rodriguez, Guillermo Villareal, Chema Cuéllar, Jeff Zornow.
The Kickstarter is to help get the series out there, think of it as a pre-purchase!
The project ends October 17, 2016.
One of the most underrated shows of all time, in my humble opinion, and probably one of the best shows to come from Showtime, is Weeds. It started off as a show about a newly widowed single mother in the suburbs trying to figure out a way to survive and raise her two sons. The show evolved to more than hat, as it challenged what society thought of gender roles and how much America had misunderstood the war on drugs until then. Eventually, the main character would deal, with Mexican cartels, and just how powerful they were.
Mexico and its war on crime has been a sore subject for many years now and has come back into the spotlight because of the presidential election. What many people don’t understand about the drug trade, that it is not one sided, in fact, there is many sides that most people, especially politicians do not understand. In addition, there is a cost to be paid in blood most of the time. This a hard lesson that is being learned in the Philippines right now, as the body count has risen to an all-time high there, as the President is determined to stamp out shabu, a low-cost version of amphetamines.
Issue one introduces us to the motley crew of super-powered Brooklynite Millennials, banding together, and led by the mysterious Trustfunder–the Claremont’s X-Men inspiration is obvious. The sequencing is a bit hard to follow at times, but there’s a lot Dimitrios is trying to get in one issue. Nonetheless, the story and humor draws you in–how do you serve jamba juice to a millennial with no wi-fi– and whether you are a millennial or not, it’s easy to relate to characters “kept down by the unfair system.”