Texas Cowboys #1

Two gunslingers face off front and center on this rugged cover — a bearded man in an orange duster leveling his revolver alongside a sharper-dressed companion, with a wanted poster and a saloon girl visible behind them and a wide-open desert chase playing out below. Bonhomme and Trondheim deliver what the subtitle promises: the best Wild West stories the format has to offer, wrapped in a cover design that channels the dusty, sun-bleached feel of classic frontier illustration. If you have any appetite for sagebrush, six-shooters, and sharp cartooning, this 2012 Dupuis collection is a genuinely satisfying place to start.