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I read it, mostly for the Severin artwork, and was amazingly unimpressed. The "gay" aspect wasn't so much tasteless as boring.
The plot was, quite simply, bad guys come to town, mess with the sherrif who has a crisis of confidence. Sherrif's son thinks dad is a coward (and, well, he is) and Rawhide Kid saves the day, trying to repair the relationship between the sherrif and his son, and teach the sherrif how to be a hero. The "joke" is that the sherrif is too dense too learn anything, how to be a hero, that the Kid isn't normal (lots of smirking comments by the Kid that fly over the head of the sherrif) and the townspeople not getting behind the good guys.
There was the idea for a good story in there, but it seemed like a mid 70's sit com plot with art far better than it deserved.
If you want to read a GOOD western, John Ostrander's two Marvel books and "The Kents" from DC are all well worth reading. |
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