Spotlight: JACK ZERO: CRACKER JACK SHOT

Few can outrun a bullet lobbed from Jack Zero’s twin pistols. Surely none can evade his legend as it rises out of the frontier west. Least of all Jack Zero himself.

Originally serialized in black and white in the pages of Dark Horse Presents #121-126, Jack Zero: Cracker Jack Shot makes its digital debut on Graphicly with subtle color befitting its dime novel aesthetic. Joel Blumsack and Arnold Pander’s sepia-toned saga of a reluctant hero is an exquisitely rendered western every fan of the genre should relish.

Jack Zero encountered his first firearm at the tender age of 12 at his uncle’s home in Boston. It was never leveled at him. It didn’t slay his parents in the streets. He simply swept the dust from an old box and pried open the lid. The born artist was taken with the lethal instrument and vowed from that moment to become as deft with a revolver as he was with a brush. Apprenticed soon after to the traveling marksman David Morrison Thompson, Jack was a quick study. But it wasn’t until a fateful night in Ohio that the young man would gain the kind of notoriety that would earn him his place in the pulps. A stranger enacts a heinous feat of inhumanity, spurring Jack and his mentor to action. In a space of seconds held aloft by three cracks of pistol fire, three men are dead. It changes Jack’s future and sparks the kind of legend that sells countless novels. Can one man who’s promised never to use his deadly talent to dole out death possibly carry the burden of celebrity, much less survive his own legend?

Grab the first chapter in Jack Zero: Cracker Jack Shot today for FREE on Graphicly.