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geekwayne's review against another edition
4.0
'Hot Lunch Special Vol. 1' by Eliot Rahal with art by Jorge Fornes is a graphic novel about a midwest sandwich chain. And crime. Lots of crime.
The Khoury family has a story of immigrant success. They built a thriving family business. The only problem is the deal they made with the Irish mob's trucking fleet. In exchange for shipping, the mob gets to run drugs in the trucks. The Khoury's want out, and the mob isn't happy. How far will these two families go to protect or end this business deal?
The answer is pretty far.
I really liked this over the top story of things going wrong in a cascade. The art is solid, and the story is really good. I liked this one.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Aftershock Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
The Khoury family has a story of immigrant success. They built a thriving family business. The only problem is the deal they made with the Irish mob's trucking fleet. In exchange for shipping, the mob gets to run drugs in the trucks. The Khoury's want out, and the mob isn't happy. How far will these two families go to protect or end this business deal?
The answer is pretty far.
I really liked this over the top story of things going wrong in a cascade. The art is solid, and the story is really good. I liked this one.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Aftershock Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
atalinay's review against another edition
It was a mob-story and didn't do anything special with that. Also I'm not sure the hand-sandwich was ever really explained? Unless I missed something.
bookwormjt's review against another edition
2.0
2.5* Not a terrible book but didn't get me excited. Very typical mob story.
etienne02's review against another edition
2.0
2,5/5. What started like something original finally end up to be a very classical mob comic story. It lacks a bit of originality to make it worth the time in my opinion!
librarianryan's review
1.0
Are you a fan of GrindHouse movies? If so you may actually like this graphic novel. That is what it makes me think of. Then again this GN is from Aftershock comics and I find most of their works have this same feeling. This is a mobster story that takes place in the northern midwest, Minnesota to be exact. A Family of immigrants made a successful life making sandwiches for vending machines and local gas stations. But what is a noir graphic novel without a mob element. The grandfather is typical mobster fair, who goes to war over trucking of the sandwiches with the Chicago mob. And a bloodbath ensues. I could do without the blood bath, and there was nothing special in the story. So at the halfway point I threw in the towel. This is for diehard fans only. Otherwise, skip this and find something happy.
willdrown's review
3.0
Welcome to the comicbook equivalent of a writer watching Fargo one too many times and going "Look, Ma, no hands!" and quickly derailing a promising story of small crime into a ridiculously "epic" dragout fight. It would have been fine if not for the fact that these 5 issues pack about 12 issues' worth of story and the art gets pretty bad as time goes by with characters barely distinguishable from one another. But the first two issues or so are real winners, in particular, because the pacing and art are better there.
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