Science fiction westerns aren’t that common. I can name two right away. Outland and Firefly. I like both but don’t know if there are anything else. Except 2000AD’s Lawless. Lawless is western in Dredd-verse. Badrock, town far from everything on distant planet, gets new colonel marshal, Book collects almost every western cliché. Rail road coming to small town after civil war. Sheriff keeping law when rich guy and his men cause problems. Weird guy locked in cell and so on.
Dan Abnett’s name sounded familiar. Had to check what else he has done. He wrote Eisenhorn trilogy which I liked. At least first two books. Need to get more of his work because I liked this a lot. It has western feel. Maybe because it has almost all clichés. But it doesn’t feel like collection of clichés. It has lot of its own. First book introduces the world. I don’t think any major story arc was concluded. It gave us some hints of things to come ending in major cliff hanger.
Lawless is only few years old but black and white art gives it feeling of classic Judge Dredd. Writing might have something to do with it. It doesn’t have humor of classic Dredd nor over the top nature of it. This is what classic Judge Dredd could have been if it was serious western. It is kind of weird how I have found really good books since Comixology became unusable. It has become harder to find comics but ones I have are quite good and I read more comics now than when Comixology was usable.