Writers: Arnold Pander and Zero Boy Artist: Arnold Pander Dark Horse 1997 WHAT A DELIGHTFUL YARN, watching artist Arnold Pander spin himself into a Wild West legend in layers, telling us who his designated hero Jack Zero thinks he is, and who others think he is; not a sensitive artist who paints and makes a … Read more
Writer: Ed Brubaker Artist: Sean Phillips Image Comics, 2020 THE ORIGIN STORY of the Red River Kid, remembered sixty or so years later in 1939, when our hero Max writes it down in a cowboy story for a pulp magazine in New York City, peppered with his own memories, starts with a gunfight on main … Read more
Writer: Greg Boucher Artist: Justin Ayres Studio Stella Polaris, October 2020 Weird Western Adventures: Bea and James is an independently-published comic book from writer Greg Boucher, with illustration done by Justin Ayers. The words “weird western” in the title alludes to a specific sub-genre, where the elements of sci-fi are mixed in what is otherwise … Read more
Writers: Anonymous editors Artist: Frank Frazetta Vanguard Press, 1981 MANY SHED TEARS for graves left behind, and search the detritus of past lives while names and episodes blow away, leaving only occasional sparkles of horror or heroes to supply a face in the era of our lost loved ones and the loved ones of others. … Read more