Think Goodfellas, but with women. This was gritty and violent but I couldn’t find a lot of depth here. There’s not enough relationship-building between the female characters and aside from murdering rivals, I had no idea what their illegal mobster activities actually consisted of. I can’t imagine how they intend on adapting this for the big screen. ( )

I don’t know what the hell I just read? Hyper violent and no one has a happy ending but I guess they’re gangsters so I don’t want them to?

Off to see the film tonight! ( )

I'd seen a few commercials for the new movie The Kitchen about a group of mobster's wives who take over the business while their husbands are in jail. It's set in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York in the late 1970's. I read an article about the movie that mentioned that it was based on a comic series and that piqued my interest. Lucky for me, my library had a copy. It's 8 issues collected in one book

The initial premise of the comic series is the same as the movie but I have no idea whether the two stories play out the same. I'll have to check out whether the movie is fairly similar to the comics or not.

It's about mobsters so I wasn't surprised to find it full of violence and language that's similar to a Sopranos episode. It took me a bit to figure out the relationships between the women and their significant others. There are some things that I thought were rather predictable and other times I was rather surprised at the direction Masters took the plot.

It was well done but as I said, very violent. I'm glad I read it. It's hard to use the word good because there really isn't a good character to be found.

The artwork by Ming Doyle and Jordie Bellaire is both detailed and rough. The feel of the urban 70's landscape is well done. ( )

I was unaware of this graphic novel until I saw the trailer for the new movie. The film doesn't look worth a trip to the theaters, but I'll probably check it out when its available on streaming or DVD. In the meantime, I thought I'd try the book.

It's a bit of a choppy and barely sketched out mess really, the sort of thing a movie producer might option solely for the concept and then have the screenwriter totally revamp. I see on IMDB that most of the main characters' names were changed, for instance. In its present version its a humorless and bleak story of death and betrayals, betrayals and death. I'm interested to see how the tone changes in the movie when Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish are injected. ( )