Introduction to the Weird West
First, let's define "Weird West". From Wikipedia: Weird West is a literary sub-genre that combines elements of the Western with another literary genre, usually horror, occult, or fantasy. DC's Weird Western Tales appeared in the early 1970s and the Weird Western was further popularized by Joe R. Lansdale who "is best known for his tales of the 'weird west,' a genre mixing splatterpunk with alternate history Western almost entirely defined by the author in the early nineties. His work reads a little like the sort of folklore in which Mark Twain dabbled (or the Gothic in which Flannery O'Connor was involved), but with zombies and gore." Examples of these cross-genres include Deadlands (Western/horror),[1] The Wild Wild West and its later film adaptation (Western/steampunk), Jonah Hex (Western/superhero), BraveStarr (Western/science fiction) and many others. I have to single out a couple of examples here. The Wiki page mentioned BraveStarr, a tv sho...