Episode VII: You Must Sleep But I Must Dance
What Happens to the Kid
1. They Ain’t Nobody Done It Yet
In Chapter XXIII, the Kid is a forty-five-year old man, adrift on the plains of north Texas.
The year is 1878 and like the land he travels through, our protagonist has seen better, brighter (and bloodier) days. The Great Plains were once home to gargantuan herds of bison: now, only bones remain. In this skeleton land, the …