by Jeff Mariotte & John Cassaday
The first four issues of the critically acclaimed series that combined terrifying supernatural horror with authentic western themes. The year is 1879 and a serial killer is terrorizing the New Mexico territory, skinning innocent half-breed children and their mothers in a brutal, ritualistic manner. With white settlers and Indian tribes both growing tenser by the minute, it's a race against time for Gideon Brood, Abby Degrazia, Jerome Alexander Betts and Pinkerton detective Race Kennedy to catch this killer and see justice done. SC, 7x10, 104pg, FC
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Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the multiple award-winning author of more than forty-five novels, including original supernatural thrillers Cold Black Hearts, River Runs Red and Missing White Girl, horror epic The Slab, thriller The Devil's Bait, and the Stoker-Award nominated teen horror quartet Dark Vengeance, as well as books set in the universes of Supernatural, CSI, Spider-Man, Superman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Conan, 30 Days of Night, and more. He is also the author of more comic books than he has time to count, including the horror graphic novel Zombie Cop, the original Western series Desperadoes (some of which have been nominated for Stoker and International Horror Guild awards) and the bestselling Presidential Material: Barack Obama. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Western Writers of America, and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. With his wife, Maryelizabeth Hart, and partner Terry Gilman, he co-owns Mysterious Galaxy, a bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror. He lives on the Flying M Ranch in the American southwest with his family and pets in a home filled with books, music, toys, and other examples of American pop culture. More information than you would ever want to know about him is at jeffmariotte.com, where you'll also find a link to his blog.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
great western graphic novel; worth buying,
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This review is from: Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight (Paperback)
"Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight", by Jeff Mariotte & John Cassaday. Sparse readers, specifically avid readers of western graphic novels, might hasten to critically judged the story trite. But on the contrary, I think ,the book turned out to be more than a delightful & moreso, an extremely gratifying read, if I may say so.The underlying story prevalently engulfed with a supernatural tone, & it is genuinely a western/gunfight genre. However,what divide it from other western stories is the adept, precise intertwining of essential elements such as western evocations, gunfights, characterizations & the leads concise origin anecdotes, surrealism, pleasantness & poignancy all consolidated eloquently into one. This book utilizes hordes of stereotypic yet vastly appropriate & breathtaking western evocations cluttered throughout the book. For instance, Pinkerton detective agency, broiling Indian war, long-standing cowboys/Indians feuds, railroads, saloon brawls, etc. The writer,Jeff Mariotte, displayed to us his expertise by churning out a classical tale of a western magnum opus, that none in a long while that had a pair of eyes laid upon. He, in my opinion, is doubtlessly one of the most inimitable writers of the genre. Also,in the same vein & echoeing the same good words to the designated artist,John Cassaday. His artwork are all eye-pleasing ,technically proficient & he managed to capture accurately, the essence of western horizons. In retrospecting this work however, the book highest point undeniably, was the delineated & expansive characterizations of the casts, prerogatively, the main protagonists. The writer succeeded breathed life into each one of them by heightening their personas & identities, each given with robust, in-depth yet conspicously distinctive demeanors to one another.To quantify these words, the protagonists, figuratively, animated, stood out & came into life with their own. A testament & honor in-behalf of the author markmanship of storytelling. "Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight" is actually a compilation of the original comics mini-series #l-5. The first 3 issues vastly expounded the four main protagonists how they rendezvous & likewise explored decisively the core plot of the story. Gideon Brood, the main lead, was surprisingly a likeable character. This part also enacted to us the archaic,old western lifestyle. Issue four, by and large, was nothing more than a sheer denouement to the first 3 issues plot built-up. It was rife with cowboy gunfightings, dynamic actions & tensions & satisfyingly, gave us a utter resolution to to every dangling plot & sub-plots. The last issue(issue 5) was an independent & stand-alone tale. It was surreal in thematic & certainly merits as a bookend to finally closed the story. It delved further to Gideon Brood past by introducing us to western & Gideon Brood untapped frontiers & as well those unseen minor characters until this time. This graphic novel is composed of 120 pages, in comic book size, softcover,colored, printed in excellent, glossy quality & coarse paper( the inside pages are glossy, quite thick & somehow coarse). All in all, good production quality. The opening pages & the end pages of the book includes loads of extra materials such as sketches, introductions, foreword, afterword & comments. If you loved this book, I have a few other western graphic novels to reveal which I'm very fond of. " the big book of weird wild west" softcover produced by DC comics; the sequel "Desperadoes: a quiet in the grave" softcover by. Jeff Mariotte. A more than worthy book to buy & recommended to add to your collections. Highly recommended !
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