Week 66

Dan O’Mite, the ruffian responsible for the collapse of the turquoise mine during a heist gone wrong. Quickly escapes jail and attempts to leave town, but not before leaving a parting gift for the towns folk.

 

Turquoise has a maximum hardness of household glass. It gets its name from the 17th century and is derived from the French ‘turques’ because the mineral was first brought to Europe from Turkey. The mineral has been used for thousands of years as a good luck talisman. In western culture it is the birthstone for December.

Week 64

 

pulp illustration of cowboy robot

The Robot Outlaw sits vigilant on the dusty Plaines . He has been paid to make sure that his companion ‘Moustache Kelly’ stays safe on his journey from his silver mine to the bank in the big city

Week 36

The Robot Outlaw doesn’t have a leg to stand on after his showdown with the villain, De Honnecourt’s men. After tracking them back to their hideout in the hills, one misstep resulting in the snapping of a twig was all it took to bring their wrath down upon him before he had the chance to formulate a plan. The fire fight took its toll on our hero and he was only just capable of dragging him self towards a home stead. which was made visible in the night time only by the flickering of fire light through the windows. The Robot Outlaw near fatally wounded crawled towards the home stopping only to fire of shots the De Honnecourt’s men. Just as The Robot Outlaw began to suspect his adventures finally had come to an end the door opened and out ran a woman. Dragging him to the safty of her home The Robot Outlaw made a promise to thank her. If only they could survive the night.

Week 35

The first game show was held in the wild west before television and radio was invented and you could only find out the results by telegram or carrier pigeon. If you lost the host would come looking for you. If you won, he left you alone.

Week 22

Chapter 2:

The Robot Outlaw tracks down Bonehead and Snide to recover the necklace stolen from the widow McGoverns.

Week 16

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Colt Riptide was the best silent movie stuntman the world had every seen. When the big movie men came in from the city and said they wanted to make a movie and needed rough and ready types to do the stunts Colt Riptide volunteered. This could be his chance to get out of this jerk water town and really make a name for himself. maybe earn a little money and some land, nothing too fancy but good all the same. Maybe find himself someone to settle down with and raise a family. Then come back into town and burn it all to the ground and salt the earth. Colt Riptide had a secret. He had seen what this town had done to his folks. How Mr Knifejack the big land owner squeezed every penny out of his father until that one day when he walked out into the fields with his riffle and never came back, how his mother was never the same. Yes sir, this town was going to eat some humble pie and Colt was the man to dish it out.

 

 

the term ‘jerk water town’ comes from steam locomotives in the American west. Trains had to stop for water every seven or ten miles. Some towns where too small to have a train station and all they had was the water tower which you had to ‘jerk’ a chain to make the water come out. A ‘jerk water town’ was a town too small for a train station and not worth visiting.

week 9

‘Stabs’ McGraw was bushwhacked by the notorious Stewarts brothers and left for dead. Forced to drink his horses blood to live Stabs Mcgraw stumbled around in delirium.

As the unforgiving sun beat down on him, Stabs became aware of a figure on the horizon. He hoped that it would be someone who would help him, but feared he was not of a lucky disposition to entertain such a notion. Stabs had never had any luck his whole life and he sure as hell never had anyone who would help him. Not without getting something in return at least.

Days passed and Stabs dragged his wounded body ever closer to the direction of home. He couldn’t shake the feeling that he was being observed. Was it the Stewarts brothers come to finish him off, or where they merely, cruelly waiting for him die?

On the fifth day he crested a hill top and there stood before him was the silhouette of that same figure that that been on his heels this whole time. Forcing him on wards. Was he even real or was it a figment of Stabs own tortured imagination. If it was the later how could Stabs have imagined something so strange so alien.