Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather

by Ron Zimmerman

Book Overview

A true legend isn't made, it's born. His name was Johnny Bart, but most everybody called him Rawhide Kid. Where he was from and where he would remain, like most legends, is cloaked in mystery. But one... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785143629
• ISBN13: 9780785143628
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Marvel
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Don't expect much depth, just enjoy the ride.

This graphic novel is not to be taken seriously. It plays upon a sterotyping of the original comic series in such a wonderful way that you say to yourself 'I knew it all along'. There are moments of plain old fashioned bad jokes and plenty of cowboy humor. When the Raw Hide Kid rides in to town, trouble, bad guys, and plenty of fashion tips (mostly bad) are sure to follow. A little campy and straight laced, the Kid is not one to take anything lying down... unless you ask nicely. If you have an open mind and want to enjoy a few quick laughs, get a second hand copy, it's worth it.

Camp Campy, Campy Campers!

This is called humor. And humor has never been about being correct historically. Humor has always been about doing whatever it takes to make someone laugh. I will second the emotion that the Explicit sticker seems to be more for the added sales they believed it would bring. But if you're going to appeal to the majority of gay readers, you'd better have lots and LOTS of skin and/or ferocious sexual escapades. Some may be placated by the Magna sort of just off camera stuff. But if you make something this gay, but don't have sexual/nudity then you are cutting your throat with the vast number of gay buyers and with it as gay as it is, and purely campy, you're not going to get many straight buyers either. I don't know the sales totals on this. The publisher is very, very quiet about it. But the comic was not a big seller outside major metropolitan centers and the only folks who bought more than a couple must have been folks like me who would go buy it and hang with my straight male friends and we'd laugh our asses off at it. Not in a bashing way, mind you. My friends are all very savvy folks. But it was sick funny. It just made me wish they wouldn't have done it to please me so much as have it please some large demographic. Like gay men who buy comics featuring twenty five inch salamis being used as battering rams. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Don't knock it...

Sure it would probably have been better if a new character was made gay versus an old standby. Everyone would have preferred that. But some people take what they can get. I enjoyed it. Yes I had to ignore that it made anachronistic mistakes. But geez louis its not a history lesson. Give it a break. I mean do you look at Superman and think its a history book? If you didn't like it... Is it that it was gay themed or was it that they changed some detail of a comic... Comic book characters change all the time. So did this one. If it was because it was gay themed then get ready to leave more bad reviews because it is not the last. If anything I enjoyed it because it was making history.

Fabulous!

Absolutely fabulous! Great story, great artwork. I love this. I'm hoping Ron Zimmerman will write a sequel to this book and that Marvel will publish it.

HILARIOUS

This book had me laughing on every page. Only the audience and the Kid are in on the "joke." The yokels think the Kid is just a snappy dresser.