Jay Faerber

This was a hoot! A really fun space western, police procedural mash up about a single- mom sheriff and her son arriving on some backwater planet and having to contend with being new on the planet and a group of alien hillbillies, a mining tycoon, and androids. The sheriff, Clara, is obviously running from something and it will interesting to read what the next volume holds.

For fans of Guardians of the Galaxy and Firefly.

A hard bitten noir of crosses and double crosses. Neither the story nor the art rise to a transcendent level, where they surprised me or changed / challenged the genre. But a solid read.

Few genres mash-up together so well as westerns and sci-fi, and this book is a great example of it done just fine. There's some cliche here (new outsider sheriff in a small town, fighting for respect, the ghost of a dark past looms, etc.) but it's mixed up enough to be fresh (she's a tough-as-nails single mum). The characters are interesting, the artwork is crisp and the story is well-written.
Highly recommended.

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