CABRA CINI: VOODOO JUNKIE HITWOMAN #½
(A Prelude to Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman Vol. 1)
ACTUALITY PRESS
STORY: Sam Johnson
ART: Bruno Letizia with R.D. Ricci; Nathan Ramirez; R.D. Ricci
COLORS: Harwan Stia Yoga; Mark Dodson; D'Anthony Mathenia; Aljosa Tomic
LETTERS: Bruno Letizia; Nathan Ramirez; Chas! Pangburn; Micah Myers
COVER ARTIST: Carlos Villas
42pp, Color, (March 2026)
Suggest for mature readers
Cabra Cini created by Sam Johnson
Cabra Cini is a comics character created by writer Sam Johnson. He is best known as the writer and creator of the sexy superhero, Geek-Girl. Cabra Cini is a former sex worker who used “voodoo magik” to free herself of her abusive pimp/boyfriend. Now, she is a hit woman addicted to voodoo.
Cabra Cini is about to get her first trade paperback collection,
Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman Vol. 1. Sam Johnson has launched a
Kickstarter campaign to help fund the collection. To help promote the campaign, Johnson compiled a special digital comic book that offers some of the stories that will be found in the trade. He sent me a copy the PDF,
Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #½.
Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1/2 opens with a “Prologue” written by Johnson and drawn by Bruno Letizia with R.D. Ricci. “Prologue” asks the question, what would you do if the clumsy antics of a young werewolf interrupted your sex life. If you're Cabra Cini, you fix him...
The next story is “White Out.” It is set in Detroit and is written by Johnson and drawn by Nathan Ramirez. There is a new killer in town, “White Out.” He's dressed in white from head to toe and he likes to kill Black men; plus, he has plans for the neighborhood. All Cabra Cini wanted to do was prepare dinner for her man, Geoff, but now she is forced to face a dangerous, enigmatic stranger.
“The Ballad of La Chica Cabra,” written by Johnson and is drawn by R.D. Ricci, opens in Detroit in Cabra's apartment. Her lover, Geoff, has a few questions, and Cabra explains the origins of her name, “Cabra,” and the origins of her identity. Meanwhile, White Out is looking for her.
“Sliding in the Wreckage,” written by Johnson and drawn by R.D. Ricci, opens five weeks later. Cabra is traveling through “Limbo” and “The Infinite.” The Infinite's ruler, “the Rook,” grows angrier with each of Cabra's intrusions, so he has planned his cruelest response yet. But is Cabra really as vulnerable as she seems?
THE LOWDOWN: Sam Johnson has been sending me PDF review copies of his comic books for over a decade. In that time, he has gradually developed into one of the most original voices in superhero comic books. Most of you, dear readers, have not heard of him because he does not write for Marvel or DC Comics. Recently, some fans have been lamenting their relatively late discovery of Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley's superhero comic book series, Invincible (Image Comics). Eventually, many of you will be offering the same lamentations about Johnson's Geek-Girl and also his delightfully weird Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman.
Two of the stories included in Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1/2 also appeared in
Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1, which offered its delightfully weird wares back in 2022. The two newer stories in this digital comic book, “The Ballad of La Chica Cabra” and “Sliding in the Wreckage,” are not so much weird as they are edgy and dark. To me, Johnson is at his most self-assured in spinning tales of Cabra Cini to date. He can shift the mood from strange and surreal to down and gritty in a seamless flow.
In the newer stories, artist R.D. Ricci takes Johnson's scripts and turns them into comic book storytelling that is both polished and potent. We get professional chops, but the art ain't too proud to offer some enjoyable ultra-violence. Ricci makes me feel the threat and danger of Cabra Cini's adversaries, and he left me wanting more of this fear and dread.
In the earlier stories, “Prologue” and “White Out,” five artists: Nathan Ramirez, Bruno Letizia, R.D. Ricci, Pablo Zambrano, and Jorge Oliveira use their diverse talents and approaches to graphical storytelling to pull these stories together. The change in artists isn't jarring because they seem to share a similar aesthetic. In fact, having several artists helps to make Cabra Cini come across more like a multifaceted character and less like a mere clever name and idea.
My opinion of Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman #1/2 is about the same as it was for the 2022 Cabra Cini one-shot. Both are certainly excellent enough to make me heartily recommend that readers consider contributing to the crowdfunding campaign for Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman Volume 1. However, I want to say that this new one-shot is better at declaring that Cabra Cini is something truly unique and undeniably entertaining.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of writer Sam Johnson's comic books will want to fund Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman, Vol. 1.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman Vol. 1 is available on
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geekgirlcomics/cabracini. There is also a
YouTube trailer for the Kickstarter campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UP-bO-UXa8
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