"A tribute to such works as Richard Brautigan's Hawkline Monster,
and Philip Jose Farmer's wackier novels, like The Adventure of the
Peerless Peer, Zeppelin's West is a wild parody of Westerns, Alternate
Universe novels, classic science fiction and horror, comic books,
pulps, and dime novels.
A Lansdalean holiday into weirdness and camp, this is a special
confection from one of today's most original, multi-award winning
writers.
The Wild West Show travels by Zeppelin to perform before a Shogun,
soon to be emperor of Japan, only to discover the Frankenstein monster
is being whittled down slowly and ground into aphrodisiacs by the
would-be ruler. Buffalo Bill, who, due to a recent accident, exists
only as a battery powered head in a jar of liquid manufactured from
the best that modern science and pig urine has to offer, along with
Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, and a cast of historical
as well as literary characters, rescue the monster, only to be shot
down over the Pacific, where they are saved from sharks by Captain
Bemo and his intellectual seal, Ned.
And then things get weird.
Includes full-color wraparound dustjacket, illustrated endsheets,
and at least ten black and white interior illustrations by Mark
A. Nelson. Signed by Joe R Lansdale." -Subterranean Press
This deluxe edition is housed in a snakeskin textured slipcase,
and signed by Joe R. Lansdale and Mark A. Nelson. It includes everything
in the trade edition, and more. Bound in premium cloth, an additional
afterword, full color signature page, plus the original comic book
proposal by Lansdale and preliminary sketches by Nelson.
textured
slipcase
