We had a lot of fun with the Vault Comics series West of Sundown (check our coverage here) and it looks like we weren’t the only ones. Vault Comics has revealed that the property has been expanded into an ongoing series “after readership for the series has grown significantly.” The series will pick up with a sixth issue that takes us until a new arc that will have a gorgeous and terrifying variant cover from the mighty Jenny Frison that you can see to the right.
The series is co-written by Tim Seeley and Aaron Campbell, drawn by Jim Terry, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Crank!.
“WEST OF SUNDOWN is about the great mythologies of the old world slamming into the folklore of the new world…the legends of Europe, and the birth of the American beast,” said Seeley. “And, taking that theme as a skeleton, we’ve draped it with the sewed together skin of Sergio Leone Westerns and Hammer Horror films. Gritty sunsets meets foggy nights. The gothic graveyard meets Boot Hill. What horrors lie in our shared unconsciousness, and how do we stuff them all into a too-tight corset?”
The second arc gets underway with issue #6, on sale November 16th, 2022. The issue will feature two second arc kick-off variants by smash-hit artist, Jenny Frison, along with three open order covers by Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry, & Tim Seeley. The full synopsis for issue #6 is;
The New Mexico town of Sangre De Moro has accepted its strange new residents: a vampire, her thrall, Frankenstein’s monster, and the would-be mad scientist, Griffin. But a new threat has come for the evil-saturated soil of the mesa: Aristide Moreau and his strange companions.
Property Concept: A western tale of survival starring a cast of literary horrors that center around a beautiful vampire must flee monster slayers in New York City and reclaim the ancestral soil that restores her undead flesh. But the world has changed since she was reborn in the New Mexico desert, and now Constance der Abend and her loyal assistant Dooley must adapt to life in the rough frontier town of Sangre de Moro, where all sorts of monsters have settled.
