One of the major trends of 2015 was a revival of the long
abandoned genre of the American Western.
To a degree this has been building in the background for a while with
major hit like Django Unchained, well
regarded entries like True Grit, and
even notable failures like Jonah Hex
or Lone Ranger. This year marked a full on explosion of
the revival however with Revenant,
Hateful 8, Ridiculous 6, Slow West, and Bone
Tomahawk. Given that two of
those movies just came out and Jane Got A
Gun is releasing soon I figured it’d be a good time to look at the Western
and cowboy heroes of DC comics.
DC has pretty much always been more than just its
superheroes, mainly thanks to the decade it spent in the ‘50s cranking out war
comics, cowboy comics, weird science stories, and horror comics. Most of those elements were revived in
the ‘70s to mass acclaim and their Western heroes were key among them, leading
o a mass stable of gunslingers, bounty hunters, and sheriffs all under the DC
banner in all their shames, shades, and successes.
