The Undertaker Volume One Is Perfect for Hardcore Western Fans

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The comic book medium has a long, proud history of delivering great Westerns, and Abrams ComicArts is looking to add another great entry to that lineup with The Undertaker Volume One: The Gold Eater and The Dance of the Vultures. This new graphic novel is billed as the perfect book for fans of genre classics like True Grit and Django Unchained.

With The Undertaker Volume One in stores now, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of the book. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:


The Undertaker Volume One is written by Xavier Dorison and illustrated by Ralph Meyer. Here's Abrams' official description of the book:

Jonas Crow is not your average mortician. Tall, lean, and accompanied by a carrion-eating vulture, he travels the Old West in a black hearse, providing final rites for those who can afford them. But Jonas is a man with a past as dark as the clothes he wears—and his newest client is about to make life very difficult for the living. When the wealthy and hated mining tycoon Joe Cusco summons Crow, it's for a peculiar request: Cusco knows he's dying, and he plans to take his vast fortune with him. By swallowing his hoard of gold nuggets before drawing his last breath, he turns his own body into a literal treasure chest. Now Jonas Crow must transport the gold-filled corpse across a desert crawling with outlaws, desperate miners, and Cusco's own vengeful former employees. With a straight-laced English governess and a mysterious woman named Rose by his side, Crow must navigate a trail of greed where the line between the "good guys" and the vultures is razor-thin.

"Fans of the modern western will be thoroughly charmed by the witty and inscrutable undertaker Jonas Crow as he gets tangled up in the lives—and deaths—of the folks in California of yesteryear," said Abrams Comic Arts Publisher Joseph Montagne in a statement. “Ralph Meyer's immersive art will plunge you into the deadly sun-bleached deserts and desperate dark saloons of Crow's world, as Xavier Dorison's relentlessly surprising storytelling drags you down the twisting dirt roads of the wild west in a wooden-wheeled hearse to its glittering and explosive conclusion.”

The Undertaker Volume One: The Gold Eater and The Dance of the Vultures is available in bookstores now and will release in comic shops on April 1. You can order a copy on Amazon.

For more comic previews, you can also check out check out check out our first look at Star Trek: The Last Starship #8 and get a closer glimpse of Diablo: Dawn of Hatred #1.


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