The Goon's Eric Powell writes Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities

[Kevin Boyd]

 

Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities #1

Writer: Eric Powell

Cover Artist: Eric Powell

Penciller: Kyle Hotz

Genre: Humor, Horror, Action/Adventure

 

Billy the Kid having faked his own death is now free to roam America, and start a new life, unhindered by his past crimes and criminal record. Free, that is, until someone discovers his true identity. Fineas Spoule and his band of traveling sideshow performers blackmail the Kid into joining their troupe. These performers are the rarest breed of human oddities and deforms: an alligator man, a dog-face boy, a wild man, a miniature boy, a psychic, a tatooed woman, and Sproule, himself, also known as "The Human Spider." Billy begrudgingly agrees. Spoule, on top of everything else, is something of a treasure hunter. He and his band are set to travel to Europe to steal a priceless artifact from a mysterious scientist, a Dr. Victor Frankensteain; with Billy as their hired gun.

 

Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities is written by Eric Powell (writer/artist of the International Horror Guild award-winner and 2003 Eisner Award-winner, The Goon) and illustrated by Kyle Hotz (fan favorite artist of The Agency and The Hood). This series combines Hotz's quirky macabre visuals and Powell's humorous fast-paced storytelling into an off-beat epic adventure full of interesting characters combining the unlikely genres of spaghetti western and Hammer horror.

 

Pub. Date: April 20, 2005

Format: Full color, 32 pages, 1 (of 4)

Price: $2.99

[Jayman]

Sounds like I have to check this out!

[Hobgoblin]

Say what? In what year has Billy the Kid suddenly arisen?

[Norrin_Radd]

[chrisco37]

 

I'll be checking this out!