The other fantastic Western title by DC, by way of Vertigo. And it starts out with the creative team supreme. Brian Azzarello is just fantastic on this story. Of course he's fantastic on 100 Bullets too. But that's a different genre. And Marcelo Frusin, on pencils, really seems to be getting his groove on. Some of these pages are suitable for framing. I mean, look at this cover, it's awesome. Of course the story starts out with Wes and Ruth making love. Unfortunatley, it's a dream. The gang who did the murdering last issue, is riding around the outskirts of town trying to decide what to do next. They know that Cutter is in town, who used to ride with them during the war. And they know that the federals are tracking them. What they don't know is that Ruth and Atticus are in the trees watching them. Somebody, we don't know who yet, takes a sniper shot at one of them, but I think it's more to alert the federals of their position, than anything else. Atticus decides he's going to take the body to town for the bounty though. Oh, and I forgot, Wes, who shortly after waking up stood on the front stoop of the Sheriff's office and pissed in the street, has been walking around town all morning with his pecker hanging out. Nobody says anything to him until he's at the undertakers looking at the dead bodies. There's just so many nuances to Brian's stories. You really feel that you could be back in the Wild West watching all this play out. This is a fantastic book, and if you're missing it, you shouldn't!!!
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