Re-reading this whole series, in order to fully appreciate, and review, the last volume, which was just recently published in Swedish. This is a traditional Jodorowsky story, set in the Wild West of the late 19th century, with a positively Shakespearian family feud, where just about everyone is out to kill each other, in order to get to the riches that lay hidden. Most of the element here are clichés, like the boy seeing his parents killed, vowing to get revenge, and in order to achieve this, getting trained in the art of war by an older master. The one fact that sticks out is that the old master in this case is missing an arm, which is ironic for a gunslinger and probably symbolic in some way, Things usually are in a Jodorowsky story.
I'm in two minds about this series. On the one hand I love the art by Boucq, which I hold as better than that of the old master Jean Giarud, of Blueberry fame. I find Boucq's art more personal and not so clean, perfect but also cold as Giraud's art could sometimes be.
On the other hand, the script by Jodorowsky is just as chauvinistic as his scripts always are. The men are hard and gritty and the women are there to be raped and killed. True, there is a character probably inspired by Ma Baker, who is tough and resilient, leading her three sons to a life of crime. But she is also killed, in order to let the otherwise all-male cast get their narrative priorities straight...
Oh well, on to volume two!