It’s a deep and powerfully told story that works on many different levels. After a shocking and violent event shakes both his and his father’s lives, they hit the road on a mission of revenge, redemption and ultimately salvation. It all backfires when he finds that his father is one of the head ‘foot soldiers’ for one of the most powerful crime families in the tri-city area, ‘The Loonies’.
(Oct.The true hero of the piece is Michael O’Sullivan Jr, who one day sneaks out to see what his father does for a living. Like movie posters, his drawings capture the action with a combination of slick draftsmanship and the bleak and shadowy forms of cinematic noir. Though Rayner's b&w drawings can be static, they are precisely rendered with strikingly delineated faces.
But O'Sullivan is essentially a superhero in a fedora, and his ability to kill an overwhelming number of adversaries with nary a scratch to show for it is a bit ridiculous. Collins writes a good gangster yarn based on historical personalities and full of crisp dialogue, violent action and brooding overtones of religious redemption. The Looneys go into hiding, and O'Sullivan and son set out to find them, encountering the celebrities of gangland Chicago along the way. They murder O'Sullivan's wife and younger son, leaving him stunned but determined to have his revenge. Fearing what the kid saw, the Looneys set the O'Sullivans up to be killed. He inadvertently witnesses his father and one of the Looneys murder a crooked cop and his partners.
stows away in his car to see what he does for a living. Curious about his dad's mysterious "job," Michael Jr. It's 1930 and O'Sullivan works for the Looneys, an Irish mob family with a stranglehold on the politics and businesses of a small Midwestern city. It's the story of Michael O'Sullivan, a feared and religiously inclined mob hit man who's brutally betrayed-and the fierce vengeance he wreaks. Originally published as a single-volume graphic novel in 1998, this is the comics work upon which the Tom Hanks movie is based.
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