Book #145: BB Wolf and the Three LPs by JD Arnold and Richard Koslowski

BB Wolf and the Three LPs

JD Arnold and Richard Koslowski

 Released: January 1st, 2011

My 11th book for 2026 was JD Arnold and Richard Koslowski’s "BB Wolfe and the Three LPs”.

This one is more of an adult comic book of sorts.  It tells a modern take on the Three Little Pigs, albeit with a modern contextualization of racism.

BB Wolfe is a farmer who has his farm taken away and his family murdered by the pigs.  BB is a personification of a black man, and the pigs represent white people.  As the pigs rewrite laws to "legally" acquire his land in their eyes, his family is brutally murdered, and he is forced to travel around and work odd jobs to keep going.  He eventually comes into league with a sort of mafia group who hires out hits on the pigs.  One-by-one, BB takes his vengeance out on the pigs who murdered his family and ultimately gets his revenge on them all.

The story carries a very racial tone.  They want you to hate the pigs and feel remorse for BB.  This is easily conveyed by the pigs altering current laws to satisfy their legal needs in order to steal his land.  The murdering of his family represents how black families were killed and destroyed in various parts of the southern United States.  The subject material is accurate but is represented in the vein of the classic "Three Little Pigs" fairy tale.  The book changes the narrative in that it has you rooting for Wolfe instead of the pigs.

While it was published in 2011, it precedes the more modern trend of rewriting old stories to convey the original heroes as the bad guys, and the "bad guys" as the unsung heroes.  Think how Cobra Kai changed the narrative of the Karate Kid series.  

The artwork is very nicely done, despite featuring some graphic scenes of the various revenge killings and the murders of the Wolfe family.  The artists were very good, and the story easily flows along with the illustrations.

It's an interesting read.  I'm not sure that everyone out there will get the true meaning of what the book conveys.  Those who are more on the progressive side will really enjoy this book and see a lot of truths unveiled in the deeper meaning of the book.  Others may not feel a sense of remorse as they identify more with the classic story, and will not see how the narrative is changed to have the reader "switch sides" in a sense.

Here is what I learned.

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• Dedicated to the memory of Emmett Till and the countless lives cut short in the struggle for equality — JD

• The story is told in Comic Book panel form.

• The story takes place in Money, Mississippi, in 1920.

• BB Wolf was a farmer.

• Wolf loved the Blues and drinking.

• The farm has been in his family possession since his great-grandfather.

• The pods foreclosed on Wolf’s farm when he refused to sell.

• Pigs believe all wolves are the same.

• The county passed a law 45 years ago requiring all dark and hairy landowners to reregister their land holdings with the proper authorities on a biyearly basis.

• The Wolf family is given one week to reregister their land.

• Mr. Littlepig offers the Wolf’s a job when he claims the farm for minimum wage.

• BB Wolf smokes tobacco.

• The Bridge was a real marker of civilization.  You could walk in any direction from town for 2 minutes and be on “The Sticks”.

• The pigs seize the farm on August 11th, 1920.

• The wolves as a whole are considered second-class citizens.

• The wolves united to protect BB’s farm.

• Big Jack and Lon watch the place so BB can go play guitar.

• The pigs set the house on fire with the family inside.

• Only Little Remus survived.

• BB found work unloading boats at the docks in East St. Louis.

• BB mutilates pigs.

• Mr. Chains is a wolf mob boss.

• BB finds himself Wanted by the authorities with a reward of $1,000.

• BB enjoys Johnny Walker.

• BB helps to kill pigs.

• BB hits Loop with his car.

• Littlepig keeps his office at a small wolf club called Howlers.

• “Little Pig, Little Pig, Let Me In, ‘cuz I’m gonna take off your head right at your chinny chin, chin!”

• BB rips the head off one of the Littlepigs when he calls his wife a “bitch”.

• Littlepig Industries has a factory in Chicago, Illinois.

• Littlepig is send pig body parts in a package.

• After gaining revenge by slaying the Littlepigs, BB Wolf is put to death at the Choctaw County Prison on October 13th, 1920.

• The names of the 3 Littlepigs are Alouissius, Beauregard, and Carrington.

• BB is killed by electric chair.

• The pigs are members of the PPP.

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Overall, it's a graphic novel version of racism in the southern United States.  The fairy tale tie-in is added for extra effect, and allows one to gain sympathy for the Wolfe's, and black culture in general.  It helps the reader to understand just how unfairly they were treated, and why they resorted to violence and other means to exact revenge against those who harmed them.

Recommended for those who want to better understand the effects of racism in a more fictionalized graphic novel style.

On to Book #146: All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

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