Friday, November 21, 2008

Hi-Yo, Silver!

One of the better comic books being published today, by Dynamite Entertainment, is The Lone Ranger. Written by Brett Matthews with Art by Sergio Cariello the book has been coming out for about a year and a half now. There are trade paperbacks which collect a handful of issues in one volume that you should be able to find at your local Barnes & Noble. If it's not on their shelf, order it.

Now, when you think of the Lone Ranger, you think of the classic Clayton Moore/Jay Silverheels Saturday morning kiddie stuff. This current comic book is a more modern, up-to-date version. Yes, the setting is still the old wild west (and Mr. Cariello does an excellent job of drawing it like he actually lived there!) but the comic gives you answers that I don't think that old show ever did like exactly where did he get his horse, Silver? What's with the mask? Where DID he get all that silver to make the bullets out of, anyway???
The latest issues of the run even give The Masked Man a slight, possible, supernatural slant.

Good stuff! Now go buy!
Here is the cover to the first Trade--





And the cover to the 2nd Trade--