Kelly Sue DeConnick’s (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios’ (Dr. Strange, Osborn) Pretty Deadly is their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality [ … ]

The Cornett-Whitley Gang; Violence Unleashed in Texas, David Johnson, University of North Texas Press, $29.95, Cloth. Non-fiction, 320 pages, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. The time period for this book is [ … ]

The Black Jack Ketchum graphic novel is a dreamlike version of the Old West, in which Tom Ketchum struggles to clear his name-and stay alive-when he’s mistaken for wanton outlaw “Black [ … ]

Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West is an anthology of Old West fiction from Titan Press. From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in [ … ]

The Bender Tragedy, Mary E. York, Geo. W. Neff Books & Job Printer, 1875. Nonfiction, $12.99, Paperback. Photos. “Dedicated to the Memory of My Husband: Dr. William York, Murdered in [ … ]

The Goodbye Family are a fictional family of undertakers  in a Weird Western comic that is the creation of author and illustrator Lorin Morgan-Richards. The Goodbye Family comprises Pyridine Goodbye, [ … ]

There is nothing on television like the award-winning HBO series Deadwood. Beautiful, profane, complex, and sublime, the show is drama at its very best. Then came a Deadwood book by David [ … ]

Man-Hunters of the Old West, Volume 2, Robert K. DeArment, University of Oklahoma Press, Cloth, $29.95, Non-fiction. Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Eight men are featured here, most we’ve never heard of, [ … ]

In the nineteenth century, vigilantes roamed the country, dispensing their own justice, flaunting societies laws and morals. In Faces Like Devils, Matthew J. Hernando closely examines one of the most famous [ … ]

“He had a reputation as a cardsharp, cattle rustler, bandit, and killer,” and if George Musgrave had had a more romantic-sounding name, Hollywood might have cashed in on this amazing [ … ]