Gritty and humorous tale set in Limerick, Ireland. A working-class family man Jimmy Savage is navigating his way around the Hogans and the Dawsons, the two leading crime families of Limerick, Ireland. Jimmy is small time but has big ideas and is bucking for the top, and through various vicious schemes and betrayals, he appears to be on his way. The story offers a blue-collar social realism that paints an authentic sense of place and a believable portrait of Jimmy and his crowd, whose dialogue comes in a torrent of regional slang, which sometimes requires careful parsing. Jimmy, meanwhile, is by no means a sweetheart, as his bloody response to his oldest friend's betrayal attests. The art, though, softens the lines of its figures and uses the thick-jawed faces and occasional black-dots-for-eyes style reminiscent of old-time comic strips, effectively blunting the edges of the grim brutality with a cushion of visual innocence. The characters are well realised, and avoid the trap of becoming caricatures, and the section at the end of the book which follows their design and development gives a good insight into the amount of thought that went into their creation. The layout is clear and easy to follow, and the artwork really fits well with the story being told. The real highlight of the book is its dark humour, both in the dialogue and the artwork.
The crime story is a skeleton given through a genre narration through which the characters, their struggles, hardships, yearnings and emotional lives come into focus. This comic succeeds in portraying a segment of today's Irish and European society.