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8,645 Comic Reviews
Excellent
8,645 Comic Reviews
The wildest tall tale ever told just got wilder. Pecos Bill & the Guns of Oz #3 continues the gloriously inventive Mature Readers series from Keenspot that dares to ask the question nobody knew they needed answered: what happens when America’s greatest frontier legend rides straight into the Land of Oz? Cover A features the vivid, expressive artwork of series artist Puis Calzada — whose dynamic linework and rich color sensibility bring both the sun-scorched grit of the American West and the strange, dreamlike wonder of Oz to life on every page with equal conviction and flair.
Whether you’ve been riding along since issue #1, you’re a Puis Calzada collector, or you’re a Mature Readers fan who gravitates toward the most genuinely original genre mashups in comics, issue #3 of Pecos Bill & the Guns of Oz delivers exactly what this series does best — unexpected, irreverent, and thoroughly entertaining storytelling that could only exist in comics.
🤠 Fun Fact: Pecos Bill is one of America’s most beloved tall tale heroes — a fictional frontier legend said to have been raised by coyotes, roped a tornado, and dug the Rio Grande — while the Land of Oz was created by L. Frank Baum in 1900 in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, making this series a collision of two of the most enduring and distinctly American mythologies ever committed to the page.
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