'Cash Cowboys, Volume 1' with story and art by Amazing Ameziane is a graphic novel with some confusing flashbacks about a group of mercenaries.

A group of mercenaries, or cash cowboys, are recruited to take down a private military contractor named Darkwater. Along the way, we get some history of each member as well as the bad blood that is found along the way. They talk tough, but are they really?

It's got potential, and maybe as a complete story it's better. This volume is a bit confusing and the flashbacks seem to lack context. They just happen and the reader is left to sort out if this is happening or did happen. I did like the art, but just couldn't find the story all that interesting.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

Such a muddled mixture of characters you could never care a toss for, and the world's least convincing portrayal of "hard" people. Nothing amazing about this, despite the creator's pseudonym – as you'd expect from a book with a title so exciting it seems nicked from a Channel 5 documentary about dodgy pawn shops.

An interesting story with some twists and turns. A bit hard to follow in some places because of the flashbacks which were informative but also interrupted the storyline.

Good artwork. If you like graphic novels about secret ops, action and bad ass operatives this one is for you.

Copy provided via Netgalley.

Drugs, cartels, former solders turned soldiers of fortune and of course gratuitous boobs. These are the basic elements that make up this series. The main characters are all "cash cowboys." Former soldiers who all now work for Dark Water, a firm that is ostensibly a counter-terrorism for hire business. Of course, Dark Water may not be all that it seems to be, as the beginning of the comic sees several of the cowboys being interrogated not very nicely by the FBI.
This is actually one of the most difficult to read parts of the story - it time jumps over and over with no real differentiation between what is happening "now" and what happened in the past. There are very few indicators to help the reader - and since it also jumps from city to city and country to country, it will get confusing for all but the most seasoned graphic novel readers.

A decent enough graphic novel. I enjoyed the concept of former special forces agents working together but the timeline seemed really unclear to me as it jumped about a little.

There are some great characters and the illustrations are detailed and add to the scene setting. However, some of the male characters look very similar so I got a little mixed up.

Thanks to Netgalley and Europe Comics for the advanced copy.