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1. #STEPHEN KING BOOK AND MOVIE BITING THE BULLET FULL#
2. #STEPHEN KING BOOK AND MOVIE BITING THE BULLET SERIES#

Ellis’s art is gorgeous and his monsters are the stuff of nightmares, and yet the general mood throughout is triumphant mainly because although High Moon is chock full of action, it is above all chock full of heart.” Through an act of wholly eerie transmogrification, the beloved Western is twisted into an occult multi-genre story, where Victorian horror is combined with a Fistful of Dollars and a dash of Warren Ellis’s Planetary to create something entirely its own. “In High Moon, David Gallaher and Steve Ellis do to werewolves what Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano once did to vampires. “An utterly engaging work that ripples with a great palette heavy on Western wood and leather tones.” Papercutz is doing their part in helping to get us both by bringing back a cult favorite comic High Moon.” “There are a couple of things that the world can always use more of. “There’s a bad moon on the rise, and the west will never be quite as wild again.” Ellis’ gorgeous red-and-blue-hued panels are a delight to behold.” “Reads like a cross between a Sergio Leone western and a gore-laced monster movie…. Ellis’s strong artwork captures the mysterious, lawless atmosphere, rising to the occasion whenever the tale calls for the reader to be frightened or awed.” Gallaher adeptly layers elements from many mythologies to create a rich melting pot of mysticism matching the diversity of settlers in the towns where the stories take place. The natural connection between those two elements is only the starting point for this engaging, intricately crafted western horror series.

And the werewolf is an ideal path to explore the mind of a person who loses all self-control. “The Wild West has always been the setting to examine what happens when humanity abandons its rules. Macgregor, a former Pinkerton agent, seeks to uncover the towns dark secrets and tries desperately to keep his own past steeped in witchcraft and the supernatural hidden.

Unfortunately, that’s the least of the town’s worries! While the summer heat pushes the mercury toward further unbearable degrees during the day, the nights are haunted by strange, unnatural creatures roaming the darkness.

#STEPHEN KING BOOK AND MOVIE BITING THE BULLET SERIES#

The Harvey-Award-Winning Werewolf Western returns in an over-sized print edition to be followed by all new material.īounty-hunter Matthew Macgregor investigates a series of strange happenings in the dusty Texas town of Blest where drought has brought famine and hardship to most of the town and surrounding ranches.