Punk Mambo #5: Soul Sisters

Punk Mambo flips the script by stealing her enemy’s own tactics. With Bunn forcing her to face her own mortality we see some solid characterization as well as some serious butt kicking. By Bunn choosing to address the elephant in the room, that Mambo’s bravado and schtick comes from her borderline disgust with being “only human”, and making that her weapon of choice to turn the tables…well it just goes to show he indeed knew what he was doing from the get go.

Bunn’s biggest challenge here is one that plagues all magic based characters, when spells exist that can allow a character to do anything how do you make it interesting? Instead of pulling some random mystic haymaker outta the blue, Bunn allows Punk Mambo to shine on her own right by using one of her greatest strengths: her raw anger and making it a sword sharp enough to cut Azaire down.

Words can barely convey the excitement that came with how well crafted this series has been but more than that the amazing cliffhanger the mini ends on. The words “Punk Mambo will return” garner every bit of excitement that phrase was crafted for. All in all you’d have to be smoking copious amounts of PCP or something to read through this series and not immediately be hitting Google after to see if Bunn and his partner in excellence here Adam Gorham haven’t already leaked some hints at what they have planned next for Punk Mambo.

Also can we just take a minute to really appreciate just how awesome Adam Gorham is on this book? I mean he already had my seal of approval after knocking out a great book with my fav X-Men character Magik with Dead Souls but this Punk Mambo stuff is him taking it to the next level.

And I said it before and I’ll probably say it many, many more times to come but Dan Brereton though! That man probably has at least 5 warrants out on him now they way he’s straight up murdering these Mambo covers! Shout out to Cris Delara as well for bringing a truly unique flair to the game and just adding more reasons to collect an already outstanding book by adding another series of outstanding cover art.