Crotalus - by Mike Baron (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From Nexus co-creator Mike Baron--Crotalus: Cold Blood, a Native American Western standalone GN with Navajo lawman Cheveyo. Art by Gleidson Ribeiro (Brazil).

Cheveyo is a Navajo lawman in the New Mexico Territory, walking the line between law and reckoning in a country that doesn't always know the difference. He rides Blucifer--a mustang with more spirit in him than horse--and he answers to the rattlesnake the territory named him for. From Sister Laura Passini's mission school to the Capitan Mountains, Cheveyo's hunt crosses paths with Bidzill, Chango Alvarado, and the gunman they call Crackshot McFadden--a revenge Western in the grand spaghetti-Western tradition, told with cold patience, a long memory, and a rattlesnake's sense of timing.

A standalone, self-contained graphic novel and a clean entry point--written by Mike Baron, the co-creator of Nexus, creator of The Badger, writer of the first ongoing Punisher series at Marvel, and one of American comics' longest-running professional voices, five decades in. No capes and no crossover homework--Crotalus: Cold Blood stands alone at the Western end of the Rippaverse list, the publisher's follow-up lane to Baron's Goodyng. 56 pages, on sale 10/27/26.

Interior art by Gleidson Ribeiro (Brazil); colors by Vinicius Townsend (Brazil).

About the Author

Mike Baron is one of American comics' most prolific writers, with a career spanning more than five decades and over a thousand published comic books. He is the co-creator of Nexus (with artist Steve Rude)--the Eisner Award-winning science-fiction series that earned both creators Best Writer/Artist Team and Best Single Issue honors--and the creator of The Badger. Baron launched the first ongoing Punisher series at Marvel Comics in 1986, writing more than sixty issues in what is widely considered one of the seminal runs on the character, and he wrote the second volume of The Flash at DC Comics. His broader credits include Batman, multiple Star Wars adaptations for Dark Horse Comics, and an Inkpot Award (1988) for lifetime contribution to comics. As a novelist, Baron is the author of the Bad Road Rising series--six Josh Pratt thrillers and the standalone Disco--published by Liberty Island Press. At Rippaverse Publishing, Baron writes Goodyng and Crotalus.