Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips provide a single-issue tale of another Fatale. Set in the Old West, we're introduced to "Black" Bonnie Smith, a woman with the (eerily familiar) power to bend men to her will and a bloody past that includes the slaughter of an Indian village and dying twice before meeting a pair of men who would change her life.
Killed and then kidnapped by a Native American named Milkfred and a elderly snake oil salesman, both who are immune from her spell, Bonnie is saved from a (eerily familiar) cult who have been hunting her for days. For the first time in years Bonnie has more questions than answers and continues travelling with the unlikely pair to a lighthouse on the prairie to grab the group's bible which may just have the answers they all seek.
Once again Brubaker and Phillips craft tale with familiar characters in new settings. I'd like a little more revelation about the cults as we see them over time, but the various protagonists continue to entertain. Worth a look.
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