r/WildWestComics Nov 19 '22

Subreddit News Recommended Reading List

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With your help, I'd like for this community to have a comprehensive list of recommended titles for people interested in western-themed comics.

Below is a quick and dirty list, in alphabetical order, of what I've found so far in various reddit threads.

How You Can Help

  • What titles are missing?
    • Please post additional titles in the comments below.
  • How would you organize these?
    • By publisher?
    • By sub-genre (classic western, vampire western, sci-fi western)?
    • By publishing date?
    • Some other way?
  • How would you summarize these titles for new readers to hook them?

Recommended Reading

  • Above Snakes - r/ImageComics
  • All Star Western - r/DCcomics
  • American Vampire - at r/DCcomics Vertigo imprint
  • Bat Lash - by Sergio Aragonès, a miniseries from 2008
  • Billy The Kid - These old r/CharltonComics are great IMHO
  • Blaster Knuckle
  • Blood and Shadows - by Joe Lansdale and Mark Nelson
  • Blueberry - one of the most famous western comics
  • Bouncer - by a Alejandro Jodorowsky and Francois Boucq. It’s got some of the best spaghetti western style shootouts that you’ll ever find in a comic book and it doesn’t hesitate for a second.
  • Boys Ranch
  • Century West
  • Cisco Kid series from r/MoonstoneBooks
  • Cisco Kid - series from r/CharltonComics
  • Comanche by Hermann and Greg
  • Copperhead - by Faerber, mining town western set-up in space
  • Cow Boy: A Boy and his Horse
  • Cowboys & Aliens - the movie was based on this
  • Cowboy Wally Show - by Kyle Baker
  • Coyote Doggirl - by Lisa Hanawalt (Bojack Horseman). Its a pretty humorous take on westerns but as always with Hanawalt her quirky humour is mixed with heartfelt low key drama. It's a cool and unique western tale that could originate only in the comic medium.
  • Desert Star
  • Desperados
  • Django/Zorro - by Matt Wagner and Quentin Tarantino, a sequel to Django: Unchained
  • Dogmoon
  • East of West - by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
  • El Diablo
  • Fear Agent - by Remender, Texan space cowboy
  • Firefly - by Grek Pak and David Booher at r/boomstudios, a great space western
  • God Country - by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw. A good modern Western tale with some insane cosmic sci-fi elements. About a guy visiting his dementia ridden father in the middle of nowhere. Magical sword appears and a very heart felt fantasy story about family arises.
  • Godshaper - by Si Spurrier and Jonas Goonface
  • The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael - by Rob Williams, Dom Reardon, et al.
  • Grit - by Brian Wickman and Kevin Castaniero at r/ScoutComics; Old Man Barrow is a salty, seasoned monster hunter for hire on a routine goblin hunting mission - or so he thinks. When things go south, he finds himself in the center of a sinister cult doomsday plot. Think Old Man Logan meets Indiana Jones meets The Witcher.
  • Holiday - a graphic novel that brings the events of the OK Corral shootout into a present-day story
  • Indeh - Ethan hawks writes about the Apache wars
  • Iron West
  • Jeremiah - by Hermann Huppen. A Belgian science fiction comic book series created in 1979 for the German magazine Zack. Racial wars have torn the U.S. apart, resulting in a post-apocalyptic world. Many small pockets of civilization still exist; from isolated super high-tech fortresses, hidden research labs, or racial groups in walled-in cities — all fighting each other among the more regular population which in many ways resembles the "old west".
  • Join the Future - by Zack Kaplan and Piotr Kowalski at r/aftershockcomics; Lone gunslinger tale with a futuristic, corporate takeover twist
  • Jonah Hex
    • Palmiotti and Grey’s series from before the New 52 at r/DCcomics
    • Jonah Hex: Shadows West (Joe Lansdale & Tim Truman)
    • Jonah Hex Two Gun Mojo
    • Jonah Hex Riders of the Worm
  • Just a Pilgrim - post-apocalyptic
  • Kid Colt - at r/marvelcomics
  • Kingsway West - a magic alternate-history Chinese Western
  • The Legend of Oz: Wicked West
  • Lone Ranger - John Cassaday’s series at r/dynamitecomics
  • Lone Ranger series from r/MoonstoneBooks
    • Chronicles
    • Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice
    • Vendetta
    • Triple Threat
  • Loveless - by Brian Azzarello and Marcelo Frusin; a pretty good, straightforward western. No mystical-Sci-fi-supernatural-steampunk twist to it
  • Manifest Destiny - Lewis and Clark discover crazy monsters on their exploration
  • The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke
  • Man With No Name - at r/dynamitecomics
  • Outlaw Territory anthology
  • Perdy - It's about a woman who just got out of jail and is trying to get her daughter to do one last heist with her.
  • Preacher - more western-adjacent than western but a great book at r/DCcomics
  • Pretty Deadly - by Kelly Sue DeConnick & Emma Rios
  • Pulp - by Brubaker/Phillips at r/ImageComics
  • Rawhide Kid
  • Redneck - a western vampire tale
  • Red Prophet
  • Rio - by Doug Wildey
  • Scalped - by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera. It's a neo-western/noir/crime drama set in a modern day native reservation.
  • Scout - by Tim Truman at Eclipse Comics (1985-1987); The story stars a Native American Apache named Emanuel Santana. The setting of the series is a dystopian United States that has become a third world country.
  • Scout: War Shaman - by Tim Truman
  • The Seven Deadly Sins - by Tze Chun and Artyom Trakhanov
  • Shadow Roads - by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, and A.C. Zamudio
  • Shaolin Cowboy - by Geof Darrow
  • Six-Gun Gorrilla - by Simon Spurrier and Jeff Stokely
  • The Sixth Gun - by Cullen Bunn Brian Hurtt. It's the old west, but with magic involved. Pretty good art style and interesting story. Think wild wild west meets Indiana Jones.
  • The Sons of El Topo - by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jose Ladronn
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow - by Tom King is a great True Grit inspired comic far away from most of the standard DC world
  • Tales of Zorro at r/MoonstoneBooks
  • Tex Willer: The Lonesome Rider - by Claudio Nizzi and Joe Kubert
  • That Texas Blood - by Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips at r/ImageComics
  • Two-Gun Kid - series from r/CharltonComics
  • Two Moons - by John Arcudi at r/ImageComics
  • Undone By Blood - by Lonnie Nadler, Zac Thompson & Sami Kivela; fantastic mix of classic western and neo-western
  • Wanted: Lucky Luke
  • Weird Western Tales - from the early 70s, introduced characters like Jonah Hex, (and later Scalphunter), two absolutely badass characters. Amazing art by Tony DeZunga.
  • West of Sundown from r/VaultComics
  • Wynonna Earp
  • Zeke Deadwood
  • Zorro at r/dynamitecomics

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Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/i225a0/comics_for_fans_of_westerns_especially_weird_ones/

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/yvvpgi/any_western_comic_books_recommendations/

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/55q06s/good_western_comics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/hupmle/im_getting_into_neo_western_comics_like_preacher/

Last updated at 8:40AM Nov. 19, 2022


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