Strangeways: The Thirsty

Two towns: One living and one not-quite-dead. Westward bound, ex-soldier Seth Collins finds a ruined village named Drytown. Just why is it that everyone in Drytown seems to want to avoid the sun? Before long, Collins finds that Drytown isn't a village, but a deathtrap. But who's setting it with live human bait? There's no clear answers, and only just barely time to escape to safety in the nearby town of Cedar Creek. The monsters from Drytown are thirsty enough to follow and hunt, even in the sunlight now. Led by their master, Raphael de Medina, the creatures are driven by desire and addiction and will not stop until they've drunk every single drop. Husbands hunt wives, men of faith are shaken, the law provides no safety, and one man's hunt for revenge may doom all the living souls of both towns to a monstrous kind of half-life, to thirst without end. The Thirsty is the follow up to MURDER MOON and the second graphic novel from writer Matt Maxwell (TUG ON THE RIBBON, HIGHWAY 62 REVISITED and RAGNAROK SUMMER.) The book features artwork by Gervasio and Jok, Luis Guragña and Alex Sheikman. In addition to the feature story, this volume includes the novella "Red Hands" which tells the story of a different breed of vampire. Gorgeously illustrated in stark black and white, THE THIRSTY is a trip to a dark West that never was. In the wilderness of the Strangeways, black hats and badmen are the least of your worries. Here, there's fates worse than death and you just might might that your trusty revolver isn't enough to get you out of trouble.