Jay Faerber & Scott Godlewski, “Copperhead Volume 2”
(Image, 2015)
I had heard this described as a western in space. Wow.
Whoever said that wasn’t kidding.
Yeah, yeah there are aliens, and some various SFnal trappings, but this
is a western. (Not that there’s anything
wrong with that.)
Unfortunately, having watched approximately 10 billion
westerns growing up, I am VERY familiar with western tropes and stock scenes.
And my complaint about this story is that it didn’t vary
enough from those tropes. It’s like any
other genre. Use the tropes if you
want. But keep them unpredictable. I felt like I knew the way everything was
going to pan out along the way.
It made for an entertaining enough read, but one that felt
rather slight.
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