COWBOYS & ALIENS COWBOYS The Old West: An era when all a man could count on was his horse and his six-gun, and Indians fought a losing battle with European settlers. Until somebody else entered the fight — an invader who saw ALL humans as slaves, and was determined to conquer our world. ® ® Van Lente Fo Van L ey Ca L ero Lima ® r osenberg The Old West will never be the same. PLATINUM STUDIOS COMICS PLATINUM ISBN 1-934220-00-0 DIRECT SALES $4.99 U.S. / $6.99 CAN ™ Cowboys_covers_v3.indd 1 11/3/06 1:35:12 PM Retail Version ® PROLOGUE Writer Andrew Foley Art and Colors Dennis Calero GRAPHIC NOVEL Writers Fred Van Lente & Andrew Foley Penciller Luciano Lima and Magic Eye Studios Inkers J. Wilson Silvio Spotti Luciano Kars Magic Eye Studios Colors Andrew Elder Letters Scott O. Brown Title & Book Design Zachary Pennington COWBOYS & ALIENS® created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg PLATINUM STUDIO S ® , I N C . • L O S A NGELE S , C ALIFORNIA • 2006 Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 1 10/30/06 2:06:48 PM Published by Platinum Studios Comics™ an imprint of Platinum Studios™, Inc. Scott Mitchell Rosenberg u Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian Altounian u President and Chief Operating Officer William L. 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Platinum Studios, Inc. 11400 Olympic Bl. 14th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90064 First Edition, December 2006 Retail Edition ISBN: 1-934220-00-0 Retailer Variant A Edition ISBN: 1-934220-01-9 Retailer Variant B Edition ISBN: 1-934220-02-7 Retailer Variant C Edition ISBN: 1-934220-03-5 Retailer Variant D Edition ISBN: 1-934220-04-3 Gold Edition ISBN: 1-934220-05-1 Classic Edition ISBN: 1-934220-06-X 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in Canada Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 2 10/30/06 2:06:48 PM Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 1 10/30/06 2:07:05 PM Prologue Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 2 10/30/06 2:07:26 PM Prologue Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 3 10/30/06 2:07:46 PM Prologue Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 4 10/30/06 2:08:06 PM Prologue Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 5 10/30/06 2:08:26 PM The Old West K 1873 k Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 6 10/30/06 2:08:26 PM Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 1 10/30/06 2:10:01 PM Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 2 10/30/06 2:10:21 PM Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 3 10/30/06 2:10:46 PM 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Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 100 10/30/06 3:04:53 PM ® K Bonus Materials k 101 Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 101 10/30/06 3:09:47 PM How a Page is Made Inks Pencils Page 11: Script Page 12: Script Pencils Inks Words: Van Lente & Foley Art: Lima 102 Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 102 10/30/06 3:10:15 PM Colors Colors Cowboys_Insides_v3_zP.indd 103 10/30/06 3:10:39 PM Creator Bios Writer: Fred VanK Lente k In comics, Fred Van Lente is the writer and co-creator, along with artist Steve Ellis, of the SF thriller Tranquility (winner of a 1998 Spectrum Award for Best Science Fiction Art) and the critically acclaimed “super-crime” series The Silencers from Moonstone Books.