Whereas many love their Western movies, my love for the Old West lay in the comics. I can’t get enough that genre in four-color, and the weirder, the better. I feel like Image made OUTLAW TERRITORY: VOLUME 1 just for me, and not only because I’ve never seen a copy anywhere else other than the one that was placed in my hands at the register.
It’s a collection of 30 stories, written and illustrated by people I’ve (mostly) never heard of. No matter, because it has all the elements I love about Western comics: gunfights, whores and … well, gunfights and whores.
None of the tales stuck out for me to merit singling out, which I’ll take as a sign of consistency for the anthology, rather than one of being unremarkable. The only thing that fits the bill there is the rather lazy lettering job throughout. Maybe it’s just me, but the last font I’d go with for gritty stories of cowboys and Indians is one that resembles that of THE SIMPSONS. For that, Thomas Mauer deserves to have his face plastered on a wanted poster.
Speaking of wanted, that promised VOLUME 2 is looking mighty fine right about now … —Rod Lott
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Sorry, but that’s about the most generic review I’ve ever read on this site. I have no idea whether this is good, bad, or indifferent.
Maybe that’s why I held running it for six months? Could be! I’d recommend it if you like Western comics. Sorry that didn’t come through as strongly as it should have, but so many of the stories followed the same template, it was difficult to delve deeply into specific ones.