The Wicked West is Like a Reese’s Cup
A Reese’s Cup combines peanut butter and chocolate which by themselves are great, but together are even better!
Well… that’s what The Wicked West is like. Writers, Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell have teamed with artist, Neil Vokes to bring us a horror story wrapped in a western.
I’d been looking forward to The Wicked West since I first heard the tagline: Suppose Josey Wales rode into Salem’s Lot. Man, that is the best pitch I’ve heard for any movie, comic, book or tv show in years.
The cool thing is that Vokes, Livingston and Tinnell lived up to the tag line! They created an ambitious story which not allows us to see “what really happened” in 1870 when Cotton Coleridge rode into a town under siege by vampires but also how the story was adapted to the “silver screen” for a “singing cowboy” movie in the 1930’s. The art and story mesh perfectly. I think that anyone who is a fan of westerns, horror or simply great graphic novels would love The Wicked West.Neil said that he had a blast drawing The Wicked West and it shows. I know I had a blast reading it, and like after eating one Resse’s Cup, it left me happy, but ready for another!
