There's a kind of sneering at the Union that's unusual, fueled further by a condemnation of war in general, but it sets up a world that's somewhat murkier than clean cut notions of good and evil. Coming at the story through the lens of a Confederate soldier, rescued from the battlefield by a black man, an ex-slave Caleb. He's not a particularly good soldier, but to be fair his entire regiment is being blown to pieces by Union artillery. Our protagonist is a Confederate soldier, Travis Parham.
The first issue itself sets up a bit of a quandary. Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears by Garth Ennis, Clayton Crain, and Joe Caramagna straddles that divide between straight-up western and supernatural thriller built on a superhero legacy. I tend towards the weird westerns, but there's something existentially fulfilling about the barren expanse, where hard, driven individuals have to eke out an existence on the frontier against regular threat of lawlessness. In honor of the release of Pulp, I wanted to start on some of my favorite westerns and stories that incorporate western conventions to show something new. emerson eddy - I've mentioned before my love of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy, spotlighting a number of different works falling into those genres, but I've neglected to focus on another genre that I love that tends to be overlooked.
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