Marvel's masked men ride again in all-new tales by a posse of today's most talented creators! It's the raucous return of Two-Gun Kid, Hurricane, Red Wolf, the Man From Fort Rango, Kid Colt, Arizona Annie, the Black Rider, Gunhawk and more! And introducing the Philadelphia Philly and Spender! Plus: re-presenting the origin of Rawhide Kid by Jack "King" Kirby and other classic Marvel Western tales! Collects Marvel Westerns: The Two-Gun Kid, Marvel Westerns: Western Legends, Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl, Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider and the Marvel Westerns: Outlaw Files handbook
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One Full Saddle: Marvel Throws Everything Remotely Western Into This Collection and Comes Out a Two-Fisted, Six Shootin Winner!,
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This is simply a great collection. Marvel, in an attempt to bring the Wild West genre back to comics, has put everything they can into this book. If you're even slightly interested in two-gun heroes, wild fillies of the fighting persuasion, and just good, old-fashioned Texan yarns, this book is for you. The action here is all-out but also thoughtful. WARNING: SPOILERS HEREAFTER. Steve Englehart's Black Rider-tale, "Black Homecoming," is full of fighting and shooting but also is a story about one's responsibility to family when you realize that someone you once respected is a villainous, treacherous, horrible manipulator of other people's bad circumstances. Jeff Parker's "Hurricane" and the character of the same name contains so much potential for violence that the obscene amount of bullets needed for it doesn't seem gratuitous only because the story is so well written and also because of the fact that it centers around his attempt to restore an Indian woman to her people. You get all-out hilarity from Keith Giffen's and Robert Flemming's creation, "Tall Tale," which is in all actuality a very short tale about a midget who in the first panel falls what looks like ten feet from his horse and hits the ground running from that point on until he's in love with ventriloquist's female dummy! You get some weird stuff, like She Hulk riding with a 21st (22nd?)-Century Two Gun Kid on a horse-cycle-hover-craft thing, a tale written by Dan Slott that actually turns out to be very, very good. He starts the tale on a seemingly impossibly stupid stunt, but shifts gears to go back in time to an excellent Western tale and then speeds back up to the present for a very satisfying conclusion. Then there's the appearance of Skrulls in Gray's & Palmiotti's Kid Colt and Arizona Annie tale that, to be honest, just didn't work for me. Well, okay, the line "Prepare yourself for the smell of roast lizard" before she blows up a whole saloon full of Skrulls was pretty darn cool. "The Man From Fort Rango" and "The Legend of Red Wolf" (which is probably the most famous and fan-favorite of the stories that were touted when the new line of Marvel Westerns was published in 2006) are two gripping stories about conflict between whites and Indians, but Red Wolf is undoubtedly the better of the two. There's nothing like seeing an Indian with the power of The Wolf behind him when his people have been massacred. My favorite story here is Joe Lansdale's (writer) and Rafa Garres's (artist) "Gunhawk: The Midnight Gun," a philosophical tale about getting what you ask for and why you should be careful in the asking. Garres's art is like a dark Kyle Hotz; very neat stuff. And then you also get several Kid Colt and Rawhide Kid reprints written by Stan Lee, whose writing was actually better than it's given credit for here, and drawn by Jack King Kirby. Kirby could draw anything, and it's great to see the warped craziness that he can even fit into a Western. Here it's a psychedelic walking Totem Pole bent on revenge, rage, and destruction! If that wasn't enough you get a very lengthy, thorough, and exhaustive collection of Marvel Western character files that will please any true Spaghetti-Western connoisseur; it talks about everything from the comics to the movies and the tales behind the tales as well as, in some cases, the rest of the story. If you have any inclination toward trying these stories, I would highly recommend your doing so. This is a beautifully bound book, with excellent covers by Marshall Rogers (the first issue) and Eric Powell (the rest), and it serves as one instance in which Marvel did everything they could to truly give the fans everything they could rather than taking them for a half-hearted marketing spin. This is a true homerun, and I, for one, hopes it helps revitalize the Western comic market. Better than that, I hope you'll read it and start seeing them dust bunnies in your house as dust devils and start staring folks down and slapping your hip when you think someone's insulted your mom or hoss. Okay, okay, just give it a try!
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