Book Review: Lady Rawhide vol #1

Book: Lady Rawhide volume #1 (issues #1-5) by Eric Trautmann with illustrations by Milton Estevan and Rey Villegas and color by Dinei Ribeiro

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

Lady Rawhide, the masked heroine of the West, returns in an all-new adventure!

This time, she faces not only the corrupt forces of the government — bent on cowing the populace through privation and cruelty — but also a new team of vigilantes: The Sisters of the White Rose.

The Sisters, inspired by Lady Rawhide's actions, have taken up the struggle against tyranny.

Although she supports the Sisters' aims, Lady Rawhide is forced to stand against their bloody methods!


Rating: 4 stars

Review:

If you can get past that ridiculous outfit that Lady Rawhide (Anita Santiago) wears, there is a good story here. But looking at that costume, I wonder why it hasn't been updated? I get why she wears it, the reason I suspect is similar to Red Sonja's chain mail bikini which she wears to distracts her would be assailants. Which is what this skimpy costume is supposed to do for Lady Rawhide. But this costume is way more tackier than Sonja's and shows far too much boob (or should I say the artist paid a great amount a detail to that area).

Costume aside, this was a well written story. It follows Lady Rawhide who became a masked vigilante to avenge her brother and to help those who can't fight back against the corrupt officials. You get a good sense of why she's out there fighting as well as the code that she goes by.

When her efforts bring her into contact with both a group of revolutionary bandits, The Sisters of the White Rose and a group of hired killers. She will have to figure out a way to keep things from getting out of hand but that's not going to be an easy task.