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(W) John Ostrander (A) Leonardo Manco
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painted cover by leonardo manco
john ostrander (w)/leonard manco (a)
• THE SCOOP: The Wild West explodes in a fully-painted MAX series!
• THE SET-UP: Following the success of their critically acclaimed
BLAZE OF GLORY miniseries, John Ostrander and Leonardo Manco return to bring you
a new tale of the Old West more real and raw than any you've seen before. As
part of the MAX line, the kid gloves are off and the bullets are flying. Manco's
art, shot directly from his colored pencils and watercolors, makes this perhaps
the most gorgeous comic of the year. Think you don't like Westerns? Take a look
at this and think again. Love Westerns? Prepare to go crazy, because APACHE
SKIES is coming at you like a bullet between the eyes!
• THE STORY: A man is murdered. A legend is born. It is 1886. The
American Southwest. The original Apache Kid is dead, gunned down in an ambush by
a pack of cowards. Now his friend Johnny Bart, the Rawhide Kid, rides the
vengeance trail to make the killers pay. But someone else is also hunting those
murderers, someone who may have a claim to the title of Apache Kid! And little
do they know that another man hunts them all. There are those who will make one
last run, one last fight, to stand free and tall in the mountains under the wide
blue Apache Skies!
• THE WRITER SPEAKS: "This is a chance to show violence even more
realistically," explained Ostrander. "Why is that a good thing? Because showing
it sanitised makes it too easy, makes it more glamorous. I want the violence to
feel brutal."
• THE FORMAT: Each issue of this four-part, monthly series will be 32
pages, with ads.
• THE WARNING: Contains explicit content. Recommended for adult
readers.
