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Dead Acre
Black Badge Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel)
Book #1 of Black Badge
By Cullen Bunn
Colorist Fares Maese / Created by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle / Edited by Adrian F. Wassel / From an idea by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle / Illustrated by Riley Brown
Published by Vault Comics
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Table of Contents
About The Book
The Witcher meets The Dresden Files meets Jonah Hex in DEAD ACRE: Black Badge Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel), the bestselling supernatural fantasy western smash #1 audio book and eBook in print and as a graphic novel for the first time!
Demons. Monsters. Witches. His sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down.
Life isn't simple for a Demon Hunter.
James Crowley met his mortal end in a hail of gunfire. Now, he finds himself in purgatory, serving the White Throne to avoid falling to hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his servitude and fade away.
His not-so-sacred duty as a Hand of God? Use his new abilities to hunt down demonic beings that have infiltrated the mortal realm.
The White Throne has sent him to the middle of nowhere: a western town called Dead Acre with a saloon, a moldy church, and little else worth talking about. There isn't even a sheriff. But the local cobbler has gone missing at the same time as a number of graves were desecrated.
Crowley must follow the clues, all while dealing with a cutthroat gang which treats Dead Acre like they own it, an extraordinary woman who makes it hard to focus, and locals not keen on strangers.
Life isn't simple for a Hand of God.
Dead Acre: Black Badge Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel ) is written by New York Times bestselling author Cullen Bunn and illustrated by Riley Brown.
For fans of Deadwood, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, Red Dead Redemption, Jonah Hex, Bone Tomahawk, Red Dead Redemption,The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher), The Sixth Gun (Cullen Bunn), The Gunslinger (Stephen King), The Dark Tower series (Stephen King), Blood and Shadows (Joe Lansdale), Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy), Trail of Lightning (Rebecca Roanhorse), Lone Woman (Victor Lavalle), Pretty Deadly (Kelly Sue DeConnick), Longmire (books and tv), Pretty Deadly (Kelly Sue DeConnick), Preacher (Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon), Saint of Killers, East of West (Jonathan Hickman/Nick Dragotta), Loveless (Brian Azzarello), Red Rabbit (Alex Grecian), Shadow on the Sun (Richard Matheson), I Travel By Night (Robert McCammon), Last Road Out of Perdition (Robert McCammon), American Vampire (Scott Snyder), West of Sundown (Tim Seeley/Jim Terry), Unbury Carol (Josh Malerman), Skin Medicine (Tim Curran), A Book of Tongues (Book 1 in the Hexslinger Series by Gemma Files), Wynonna Earp, Joe R. Lansdale and Tim Truman, and weird westerns.
Original prose series written by USA Today Bestseller Rhett C. Bruno and Audie Nominated author Jaime Castle.
Black Badge (Original Series) Awards and Praise:
Demons. Monsters. Witches. His sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down.
Life isn't simple for a Demon Hunter.
James Crowley met his mortal end in a hail of gunfire. Now, he finds himself in purgatory, serving the White Throne to avoid falling to hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his servitude and fade away.
His not-so-sacred duty as a Hand of God? Use his new abilities to hunt down demonic beings that have infiltrated the mortal realm.
The White Throne has sent him to the middle of nowhere: a western town called Dead Acre with a saloon, a moldy church, and little else worth talking about. There isn't even a sheriff. But the local cobbler has gone missing at the same time as a number of graves were desecrated.
Crowley must follow the clues, all while dealing with a cutthroat gang which treats Dead Acre like they own it, an extraordinary woman who makes it hard to focus, and locals not keen on strangers.
Life isn't simple for a Hand of God.
Dead Acre: Black Badge Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel ) is written by New York Times bestselling author Cullen Bunn and illustrated by Riley Brown.
For fans of Deadwood, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, Red Dead Redemption, Jonah Hex, Bone Tomahawk, Red Dead Redemption,The Dresden Files (Jim Butcher), The Sixth Gun (Cullen Bunn), The Gunslinger (Stephen King), The Dark Tower series (Stephen King), Blood and Shadows (Joe Lansdale), Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy), Trail of Lightning (Rebecca Roanhorse), Lone Woman (Victor Lavalle), Pretty Deadly (Kelly Sue DeConnick), Longmire (books and tv), Pretty Deadly (Kelly Sue DeConnick), Preacher (Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon), Saint of Killers, East of West (Jonathan Hickman/Nick Dragotta), Loveless (Brian Azzarello), Red Rabbit (Alex Grecian), Shadow on the Sun (Richard Matheson), I Travel By Night (Robert McCammon), Last Road Out of Perdition (Robert McCammon), American Vampire (Scott Snyder), West of Sundown (Tim Seeley/Jim Terry), Unbury Carol (Josh Malerman), Skin Medicine (Tim Curran), A Book of Tongues (Book 1 in the Hexslinger Series by Gemma Files), Wynonna Earp, Joe R. Lansdale and Tim Truman, and weird westerns.
Original prose series written by USA Today Bestseller Rhett C. Bruno and Audie Nominated author Jaime Castle.
Black Badge (Original Series) Awards and Praise:
- Nominated for a 2023 Audie Award
- Won Best Fantasy for 2022 on Audible
- Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Nominee for Fantasy (2022)
- Won Grand Prize in the 2022 CIBA Paranormal Awards for Supernatural Fiction.
- "A gritty romp sure to please fans of Jim Butcher and Mike Carey." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
- "A weird Western starring a taciturn lone gunman who will remind readers of Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia." —Library Journal
About The Illustrator
Riley Brown is a comic book penciler/inker and illustrator based in Murfreesboro, TN. Drawing has always been a mainstay for Riley. However, in recent years he decided to pursue a career in comics full time.
Product Details
- Publisher: Vault Comics (September 16, 2025)
- Length: 160 pages
- ISBN13: 9781638492788
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