Digitally Speaking...30 "Copperhead"

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Copperhead #1 (Image)

From 2014.

I've read and generally enjoyed Jay Faerber in the past.  I still think his Noble Causes could use a little more recognition (and subsequently, I have no idea why he's never done Fantastic Four).

Copperhead is a Western in space.  For me, it has clear echoes of a specific Western in space that I've already seen.  Not just Star Trek in general (which in an essay Faerber mentions) but Deep Space Nine.  They both feature a parent and child settling in a new assignment after some business they'd rather forget.

Copperhead is something of a Western procedural, as the main character is a sheriff, making this comic a space age version of the many Westerns that used to populate TV.  In that crime sense, it's perfectly aligned with another recent Image launch, The Fuse.  I have no idea why crime procedures are suddenly such a thing in comics, other than Brian Michael Bendis and Ed Brubaker.  And you know, Batman and stuff.

It's not bad, but I'd like to have had a better sense of the world Copperhead represents.  I'm expecting something as awesome as Saga, and clearly that's not really going to happen.  But it's probably something worth checking out all the same.