Anyway, all that whining aside, let’s look at the comic itself. Writing duties are taken up by John Layman (Gambit, Gen13), and he performs them admirably. Tony acts like Tony, Sosa like Sosa, and Elvira like Elvira. All the characters that survived the movie behave in the same way they did in Scarface, adding to the authenticity of the story. Characters that don’t appear in Scarface also behave in a way that fit’s the Scarface universe. Tony’s frequent usage of certain words is also present, and reading this comic makes you want to wash your mind out with soap - that language is that bad. In a good way.

The storyline itself is, as I said earlier, a ‘what if John Layman had written Scarface?’ affair. To cut a mini-series even shorter, he gets out of hospital after surviving the climactic gunfight he was seemingly killed in at the end of the film, and claws his way back up to the top. Kills all the players, takes over the coke industry, gets a big house and ‘soldiers’, and so on and so forth. You probably already know how this story finishes.

The artwork is done by Dave Crosland (Puffed, Slop: Analecta). Personally, I really didn’t like his style; I found it too wacky for my tastes. Probably because I was expecting an uber-realistic style of art to go with Pacino’s eye popping shouting scenes. But maybe that’s just the black and white Scarface poster talking. That said, the artwork does go with the tone of the story, adding to the comedic factor. The way characters are rendered puts a smile on even my face at times and the violence comes it kicks you in the face and then stamps on your neck. Repeatedly.

Overall, a bloody, funny, well-written but predictable story that I personally felt added little to the Scarface story. You like funny comics, you pick this up, cabron. You like Cuban’s swearing, you run down and grab a copy. Otherwise, I say thee nay.