Book: The Lone Ranger volume #8 (issues #19-25) by Ande Parks with illustration by Esteve Polls and color Mark Rueda
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: January 6, 2015
Description:
The legend of the Lone Ranger and Tonto lives on, in two-fisted tales from the Old West!
Thrill to the famous masked man's adventures as he avenges the cold-blooded murder of Abilene marshal Tom "Bear River" Smith, rescues a stranded wagon and its precious cargo from a deadly Colorado blizzard, saves an elderly rainmaker from a lynch mob during a season of drought, pursues a high-strung outlaw after a botched bank heist, foils the train robbery by a war-obsessed Chiricahua renegade, and averts the starvation of an Arapaho tribe after pleasure-seekers hunt their only food source - the American buffalo - to near extinction.
Also, Tonto takes center stage in a origin story that proves that a rider is only as good as his horse, as his escape from Fort Garland leads to a fateful first encounter with his trusty stead, Scout.
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
In this eighth volume, the reader gets seven very well written stories which also includes an origin story for Tonto that shows how his life was anything but great with the settlers taking over their land and killing those who got in their way.
For a person who really doesn't care for westerns, I thought this was really good. The writing was strong and emotional as The Lone Ranger and Tonto set out help those in need or to try to stop those committing crimes especially with robberies increasing and the law unable to stop them.
This doesn't show the romanticized old west but the harsh realities of those who lived back then. You see the turmoil and stress and also the truly awful treatment of the Indians as they were pushed further off their land and their fights between the new settlers.
There is a lot of action and adventure in these stories and you get see why The Lone Ranger and Tonto are heroes.
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