How The West Was Won

For those of you who don't know I'm a huge western fan. I can't get enough of the genre from reading it in comics and novels to playing videogames to watching Tarrantino's Mexican Standoffs. I just love the feel of the old west and right now it is no better time to be a fan of the genre for someone born in the 80's or later. What I mean by this is the rebirth of the genre back in 2004 when Rockstar Games released Red Dead Revolver, Deadwood, and the spagetti western themed Kill Bill Vol. 2 came out. At the time this just looked like three indivdual projects that were inspired by westerns but really was the beginning of the western rebirth. The next year we would see the release of No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy that was later made into a movie in 2007 which brought back a lot of interest in westerns. Later films like 3:10 to Yuma and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford staring big time actors like Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Russel Crowe, and Christain Bale. In the same year the videogame Call of Juarez came out. Dynamite comics would also join in the western rebirth by creating the Lone Ranger, The Man With No Name, and The Good The Bad and The Ugly comics. Marvel Comics would also follow in the footsteps of Dynamite by adapting Stephen King's fantasy western book series The Dark Tower into a comicbook. In 2009 the second Call of Juarez came would be released in the summer having some success at the time. Now FX networks has released a modern western show called Justified staring Timothy Olyphant. The modern western is pretty good with some critics saying it's better than the critically acclaimed The Shield but I wouldn't take it that far just yet. Next month the highly anticipation Red Dead Redemption will come out which I feel will really get a lot people into westerns. What is the future of westerns? Well supposely there making a Lone Ranger and Dark Tower movie. Hopefully will see another Red Dead and Call of Juarez game and maybe a new comicbook series or maybe I'll have to write my own western novel after I'm done with King. Thank You for reading, please leave comments. Here are some trailers.

Read Dead Redemption

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Justified