Review: Evolution of a Fun Character into a Great Character
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2012
I am an unabashed fan of most of Hartness's work, and the Bubba-Verse in particular. It started out as just a fun read on a weekday day off and has transformed into a must-have for me. I am just this side of forty and the Bubba tales make me feel like a kid running to the store with my lawn-mowing money in hand to find out what happened to my favorite comic book characters. His writing is totally engrossing and engaging. But what had started as a fun character in the vein of Ash from Evil Dead, or the titular Briscoe County Junior has become a real character, one you will learn to care for and hope the best for, one you will want to stand beside and slay with. Bubba is that one friend that we all have, the one that is their for us when the chips or down, the one who leaps without looking because leaping is right. This story is the Bubba origin story, the issue 0, so to speak. How an affable good old boy football lineman got turned into the scourge of the weird world, what drives him, what made him decide to become a one-man Holy Inquisition. Hartness's writing is moving, you feel what the character feels. Buy the story, buy all the stories, you won't be disappointed. The strongest recommendation I can give is this: My 16 year old son, who is very much a child of the digital age and with the  attention span of any young man his age had to be told to put my copy down and get ready for bed. It's that good.