The Big Picture What makes a Western? Is it the wide, open spaces that cowboys ride through on their way to catch outlaws and gunslingers? Is it the lone lawman who stands up to corruption in his small, desert town? Whatever it is that makes a horse opera a horse opera, we know it when we see it, and that's part of the genre's trademark charm.
Of course, there were plenty of crossovers between the Western and other genres long before DC Comics published their Weird Western Tales series. B-pictures such as the 1930s film Riders of the Whistling Skull or the 1959 feature Curse of the Undead were no strangers to crossing between genres, and Marvel Comics even invented their time-traveling Western hero, the Colt Kid, back in the late 1940s.
One clear example of how this can be done is in the original Red Dead Redemption video game. Now, Red Dead isn't itself a Weird Western — it's very traditional in the way it throws John Marston into the fray — but the same year Rockstar Games released the original tale, they also dropped Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. In this non-canonical edition, John is forced to deal with hordes of zombies as he searches for a cure for his family's own undead infection.
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