Boyd Linney is a precocious 10-year-old bounty hunter. He rides into town on a horse that is not his, carrying his custom built rifle. This is not fun and games for him, he is dead serious about collecting his bounty. Don’t let his age fool you he is one tough cowboy.
Boyd Linney’s adventures are chronicled in the new comic titled Cow Boy. Cow Boy debuts for free this week at CowboyComic.net. The series is by writer Nate Cosby and artist Chris Eliopoulos. In March the entire series will be collected by Hollywood based graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment in hardcover format.
Writer Nate Cosby writes fun dialogue that without the pictures you would think you were reading a Clint Eastwood western movie script. The tough guy no nonsense attitude of Boyd gives the series its charm. Cosby keeps the back story of Boyd light when he tells the basics of his story, “I got born, I stirred trouble, I got beat . . . Mama liked to say I got too much’a my Daddy in me. I pray that ain’t true.”
The solemn Boyd travels with his horse which is a custom made rifle that looks like a toy horse on a stick. Boyd works on the side of justice and his mission is to round up his outlaw family collecting the bounties on each of their heads.
The artwork of Chris Eliopoulos resembles comic strip greats like Bill Waterson’s Calvin and Hobbes and Charles Schultz’s Peanuts. The comic feels like the Sunday comics in the newspaper, but the longer form of storytelling allowed by the graphic novel format makes this series so much more entertaining.
Eliopoulos creates rich detail on each page. Each panel tells you something about the story and its star Boyd. The story flows from panel to panel and from page to page telling the narrative brilliantly. The artwork is stylized making each page fun.
The decision: Cow Boy is a lot of fun and is a comic that can be read and enjoyed by everyone. A delightful story of a 10-year-old boy who knows no fear and goes about his way like a hardened cow boy should. The dialogue is clever and loaded with bits about who Boyd is. Cosby and Eliopoulos have created a fantastic story with an entertaining lead character.
You can start reading Cow Boy at COWBOYCOMIC.NET now. This week is Cow Boy Week and new pages will be posted every day. Then for the next nine weeks new pages will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays until they are collected in hardcover in March by Archaia Entertainment. You can pre-order the hardcover direct from the Archaia Store or by contacting your local comic shop.
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