Dead in the West

(Dark Horse, 1993-1994)
™ 1993 Joe R. Lansdale. Story adaptation ©1993 Neal Barrett Jr. Art ©1993 Jack Jackson

East Texas. 1876. The late stage was fighting its way across the countryside outside Mud Creek. It made a rest stop, and the boy riding shotgun went off into the bushes to do his business. That’s when he saw the spider…

The next anyone saw of the stage, it was sitting—empty—in the middle of Mud Creek. Its former passengers now spent their days in root cellars and shallow graves—and walked by night.

The Reverend Jebediah Mercer had also come to town. An itinerant drunkard, he was selling redemption. He felt his mission was to save Mud Creek with a bible and a revolver. But he would soon learn that Mud Creek, an East Texas city of the Old West, had already earned its damnation.

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#1

October, 1993
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Neal Barrett Jr.

Jack Jackson

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March, 1994
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Joe R. Lansdale, Neal Barrett Jr.

Jack Jackson