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Loveless #3
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"It’s not going to be as wide open as 100 Bullets is with the supporting cast. There’s going to be four or five characters that follow them around. One of them is a bounty hunter who is a former slave. He’s a very interesting character – Atticus. He’s not a “noble savage.” A lot of popular fiction from that particular time focused on “I just want to do good.” He doesn’t want to do good. He just wants to kill white people. He’s got an axe to grind – rightfully so.
Atticus may turn out to be the character that readers most identify with. I mean, Lono is arguably the most popular character in 100 Bullets despite my best efforts."
- Brian Azzarello
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Loveless #1
Jul. 29th, 2018 08:06 pmhistory79
SEAN FAHEY: What I immediately found interesting about this story was the setting. It’s somewhat unconventional for a Western. Missouri. The Western Confederacy. Reconstruction. At best a loose federal government. A lot of resentment. Probably the most lawless period in our nation’s history. What does this period bring to your story that the conventional Western setting does not?
BRIAN AZZARELLO: It’s the part of the war that we’re not supposed to know about really. What immediately attracted me to that setting when I was doing this was what we’re going through right now – with an occupied nation. It’s very similar. The South was for all intents and purposes occupied. And the Haliburtons and Bechtels of the time were going down there and making some serious money with the government’s blessing. It was completely lawless, and what rules they had were being made up as they went along.
This was also a time when people were promised one thing and it was only delivered very, very briefly. Then it was taken back. No one was happy. The war was over, and no one was happy. Everyone was getting screwed. People were asking, “Was the war about slavery? I don’t know.” They were asking “We fought about this? But we didn’t make a change. They’re free but they’re actually in worse shape than they were before.”
Source: https://trouble.city/chudcom/4711/thors-comic-column-brian-azzarello-interview
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When EC Comics took on syphilis
Feb. 24th, 2016 06:23 pmalicemacher
In 1949, the relatively unknown cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, coming off a run of his one-page gag strip Hey, Look! for Timely, shopped his work around and received his first EC assignment. No, it wasn't on one of their horror titles; those wouldn't be launched until the following year. Nor were they publishing war or satire comics yet. Rather, Kurtzman's EC debut was as illustrator of Lucky Fights It Through, a giveaway 16-page educational comic about syphilis...with a two-fisted cowboy setting, since western comics were in then.
( 'That ignorant, ignorant cowboy' )
Pretty Deadly #1
Aug. 30th, 2015 10:57 aminformationgeek
"I’d always wanted to do a Western, but years ago I had an editor tell me that artists hate drawing horses and that was why it was so hard to get a Western going. He was probably kidding, but I believed him.
Newsflash: I’m an idiot." - Kelly Sue DeConnick
8 2/3 out of 26 pages
Warning for language and violence.
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history79
Multiversity Comics: Did you have any favorite Western comics or movies growing up that influenced the series?
Gerry Duggan: All the Marvel westerns, I really enjoyed Jimmy and Justin’s westerns at DC, and too many films to name. Everything Leone, Once Upon A Time In The West, Unforgiven, Tombstone, there’s also some of Friedkin’s Sorcerer in our DNA. It’s not a western, but it’s an amazing film. Star Wars came out a week after it, and the audience dried up, but make no mistake — it’s a masterpiece.
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icon_ukthen I can too! :)
From the webcomic Hotblood comes
( A tale of the Old West unlike any you've seen before )
From the webcomic Hotblood comes
( A tale of the Old West unlike any you've seen before )
The Wedding You Never Expected To See!
Jan. 3rd, 2014 04:22 pmskjamHi folks!
It's been a while since we last checked in on our favorite hideously-scarred bounty hunter, so let's do that.
This scene does not appear in this issue. What does is a wedding you were never expecting to see; SPOILERS for All Star Western #26.
( Four pages from the latest issue )
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
It's been a while since we last checked in on our favorite hideously-scarred bounty hunter, so let's do that.
This scene does not appear in this issue. What does is a wedding you were never expecting to see; SPOILERS for All Star Western #26.
( Four pages from the latest issue )
Your thoughts and comments?
SKJAM!
The Kents Meet a Famous Actor
Jan. 20th, 2012 02:57 pmespanolbotOne of the suprisingly underrated series' to come out of the 1990s was, to me, John Ostrander's 'the Kents'. Not heard of it? Not really suprising, I think that it's been out of print until very recently, but think that they might have republished it recently in two 100 page issues, which you should kind of pick up if you're able to, it's excellent.
Warning for racism.
( Minireview, two pages of comic )
Warning for racism.
( Minireview, two pages of comic )
30 Days of Winter: Westerns **Main Post**
Dec. 25th, 2010 02:04 pmschmevilWesterns! Typically set in the American old west, in the mid to late 19th century. Westerns aren't so much about the frontier itself (usually), as the ending of it, conflict between settlers and native peoples, new technologies, and all the horrible things done in the midst of it. Westerns can be funny or tragic, reassuring or unsettling--the genre is flexible enough that new Westerns movies, books and comics come out every year. Although not many.
Western comics went out of style along with romance comics (and pirates!), with the rise of superhero stories. By the sixties, Western comics were... hard to find. To say the least. In the last few years, a number of strong Western or Western-themed series have come out. Jonah Hex, Preacher, Streets of Glory, Loveless, (the disastrous) Rawhide Kid, Apache Skies (Apache kid's story), and on and on. And that's not counting the non-American stuff and updates like No Country For Old Men (you guys have seen it, right? RIGHT?). Western comics, they're back baby, and I love them.
But why Westerns? I'm in endless love with revenge stories, with unlikely or wrecked protagonists, and revenge is something Westerns have an overflowing cup of. Survival stories so muddy you're not sure you want the protagonist to survive. Beaten down, travel stained heroes, with pasts that are anything but heroic. You get the idea.
Today I'm going to share 12 pages from issues 1 and 2 the new(ish) Lone Ranger, an update and adaptation of the 49-57 tv series. ( high ho silver, away! )
Also, Merry Xmas for those celebrating, happy day off for those so blessed, and glory glory Western day for the rest of us.
Western comics went out of style along with romance comics (and pirates!), with the rise of superhero stories. By the sixties, Western comics were... hard to find. To say the least. In the last few years, a number of strong Western or Western-themed series have come out. Jonah Hex, Preacher, Streets of Glory, Loveless, (the disastrous) Rawhide Kid, Apache Skies (Apache kid's story), and on and on. And that's not counting the non-American stuff and updates like No Country For Old Men (you guys have seen it, right? RIGHT?). Western comics, they're back baby, and I love them.
But why Westerns? I'm in endless love with revenge stories, with unlikely or wrecked protagonists, and revenge is something Westerns have an overflowing cup of. Survival stories so muddy you're not sure you want the protagonist to survive. Beaten down, travel stained heroes, with pasts that are anything but heroic. You get the idea.
Today I'm going to share 12 pages from issues 1 and 2 the new(ish) Lone Ranger, an update and adaptation of the 49-57 tv series. ( high ho silver, away! )
Also, Merry Xmas for those celebrating, happy day off for those so blessed, and glory glory Western day for the rest of us.
Apache Skies #1 (6 pages)
Jun. 13th, 2010 08:03 pmschmevilI'm going to start slowly reposting the western comics I put up at 1.0, with some additions. What do my fellow western readers want most?
Streets of Glory
Apache Skies
Loveless
The Lone Ranger
Scalped
Blaze of Glory
I've scanned large portions of all of these, and would be willing to (slowly) post excerpts if there's interest.
Now to business, six pages from the first issue of the Apache Skies miniseries. Not plotty, but a sequence I love.
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PS. I'm officially on modcation for several weeks, so if you've got any modly queries, direct them to another member of the mod team. xo
Streets of Glory
Apache Skies
Loveless
The Lone Ranger
Scalped
Blaze of Glory
I've scanned large portions of all of these, and would be willing to (slowly) post excerpts if there's interest.
Now to business, six pages from the first issue of the Apache Skies miniseries. Not plotty, but a sequence I love.
( Read more... )
PS. I'm officially on modcation for several weeks, so if you've got any modly queries, direct them to another member of the mod team. xo
Cocco Bill comic
Nov. 19th, 2009 06:45 pmparusmajorSorry for an untranslated preview pic; the rest of the comic is properly translated into English.
( Cocco Bill comic )
( Cocco Bill comic )
