‘Pretty Deadly’ Is Pretty Awesome As Supernatural Western!

Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Emma Rios have teamed up to bring readers a unique take on vengeance and gun-slinging action. Inspired by spaghetti westerns, Japanese cinema, and Grimm's fairy tales, Pretty Deadly  follows Death's daughter, Ginny, as she rides through the West on a horse made of smoke.

Plot Synopsis:

Collects Pretty Deadly #1-5  for a special low introductory price!Kelly Sue DeConnick (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) and Emma Rios (Dr. Strange, Osborn) present the collected opening arc of their surprise-hit series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. Her origin story is a tale of retribution as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.

From the official Image Comics Press Release:

Rios states, "The book is absorbing us while breathing on its own. Sometimes I feel we are hidden behind a rock, gasping, watching the characters do their things."

DeConnick explains the spaghetti western look of the series, "We wanted a very [Sergio] Leone feel to it. As we worked, I felt we were straying from that original notion and though I came to love the direction the book insisted on going, I felt a twinge of grief at the loss of the Leone connection. I don't know why, but I did. Then a friend of mine quoted this Leone line to me. 'The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.' So in the end, it seems we haven't strayed at all."

Pretty Deadly Volume 1:The Shrike hits stores on April 30, 2013. Be sure to follow the Pretty Deadly website which posts images from the creative process and answers the reader's questions.