Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight

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Summary: great western graphic novel; worth buying
Review: "Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight", by Jeff Mariotte & John Cassaday. Sparse readers, specifically avid readers of western graphic novels, might hasten to critically judged the story trite. But on the contrary, I think ,the book turned out to be more than a delightful & moreso, an extremely gratifying read, if I may say so.

The underlying story prevalently engulfed with a supernatural tone, & it is genuinely a western/gunfight genre. However,what divide it from other western stories is the adept, precise intertwining of essential elements such as western evocations, gunfights, characterizations & the leads concise origin anecdotes, surrealism, pleasantness & poignancy all consolidated eloquently into one.

This book utilizes hordes of stereotypic yet vastly appropriate & breathtaking western evocations cluttered throughout the book. For instance, Pinkerton detective agency, broiling Indian war, long-standing cowboys/Indians feuds, railroads, saloon brawls, etc. The writer,Jeff Mariotte, displayed to us his expertise by churning out a classical tale of a western magnum opus, that none in a long while that had a pair of eyes laid upon. He, in my opinion, is doubtlessly one of the most inimitable writers of the genre. Also,in the same vein & echoeing the same good words to the designated artist,John Cassaday. His artwork are all eye-pleasing ,technically proficient & he managed to capture accurately, the essence of western horizons.

In retrospecting this work however, the book highest point undeniably, was the delineated & expansive characterizations of the casts, prerogatively, the main protagonists. The writer succeeded breathed life into each one of them by heightening their personas & identities, each given with robust, in-depth yet conspicously distinctive demeanors to one another.To quantify these words, the protagonists, figuratively, animated, stood out & came into life with their own. A testament & honor in-behalf of the author markmanship of storytelling.

"Desperadoes: A Moment's Sunlight" is actually a compilation of the original comics mini-series #l-5. The first 3 issues vastly expounded the four main protagonists how they rendezvous & likewise explored decisively the core plot of the story. Gideon Brood, the main lead, was surprisingly a likeable character. This part also enacted to us the archaic,old western lifestyle.

Issue four, by and large, was nothing more than a sheer denouement to the first 3 issues plot built-up. It was rife with cowboy gunfightings, dynamic actions & tensions & satisfyingly, gave us a utter resolution to to every dangling plot & sub-plots.

The last issue(issue 5) was an independent & stand-alone tale. It was surreal in thematic & certainly merits as a bookend to finally closed the story. It delved further to Gideon Brood past by introducing us to western & Gideon Brood untapped frontiers & as well those unseen minor characters until this time.

This graphic novel is composed of 120 pages, in comic book size, softcover,colored, printed in excellent, glossy quality & coarse paper( the inside pages are glossy, quite thick & somehow coarse). All in all, good production quality. The opening pages & the end pages of the book includes loads of extra materials such as sketches, introductions, foreword, afterword & comments.

If you loved this book, I have a few other western graphic novels to reveal which I'm very fond of. " the big book of weird wild west" softcover produced by DC comics; the sequel "Desperadoes: a quiet in the grave" softcover by. Jeff Mariotte.

A more than worthy book to buy & recommended to add to your collections.

Highly recommended !