Image Comics has lassoed writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel) and artist Emma Ríos (The Amazing Spider-Man) to create a supernatural Western inspired by Japanese “pinky violence” movies, spaghetti westerns, samurai films and Grimm’s fairy tales.
Ginny is Death’s daughter, a reaper of vengeance; she rides through the West on a horse made of smoke, her face tattooed with her heritage, and deals in revenge.
“We wanted a very [Sergio] Leone feel to it,” stated DeConnick. “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 #1 arrives on October 23, 2013 and can be pre-ordered from the August issue of Previews.