



He shows Pirlo the mutilated bodies of FBI members who came across one of his distilleries. Hiriam, the patriarch of the Holts, doesn’t want to do business. What Pirlo thinks is a routine run soon descends into a hellish fight for survival. It focuses on a gangster called Lou Pirlo, who’s sent by the boss of the Masseria family to Appalachia to secure booze from the Holt family. The story is set during the Prohibition era, with the Italian Mafia looking to get rich off the sale of illegal alcohol. The graphic novel combines 1920s gangsters, rural noir and horror to create a tale about monsters, both human and inhuman. The same can be said for the team of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, who’ve knocked it out of the park with Moonshine: Vol 1. Whether it’s Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, or Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, you know you can expect greatness. In the comic industry, there are certain teams who create magic together.
