There’s something special about something great coming out of chaos. I know for me, I have many different experiences about being in the military. Many of my deployments lead to different parts of the world, some nicer than others. What can be culled from some of my worst experiences are some of my lifelong friendships that came from them.

In the second issue of Adventures In The Empire, we get quite an interesting entanglement in the Love Triangle In The High Sierras.

We are taken to 1871 in the Sierra Madres mountains in California, where we meet Dave Durell, a sheriff’s deputy who has the luck of escorting a young woman, Angela, the daughter of a rich rancher and Cap Preshaw, one of her father’s hired hands and a love interest of Angela.  Just as they thought were able to head up a mountain passage, Dirk McGongle, a rival rancher from the Bar B Ranch, ambush them before they can react. Pinned down Dave and Angela find themselves in the middle of a gunfight, one which leaves both sides discombobulated. By book’s end, not everyone makes it out alive and a few hours in these character’s lives leaves those left alive forever changed.

Overall, an interesting story that pulls from the best of the Western genre and remembers that people fall in love with characters first. The story by Tom Durwood is fun and smart. The art by Boell Oyino is lovely. Altogether, Durwood shows he is not only master storyteller but also understanding that every moment is as important as the complete story.

Story: Tom Durwood Art: Boell Oyino
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy