The Lone Ranger strikes me as neither pessimistic nor genre-savvy, so he maybe doesn't know that having a good feeling about anything is a recipe for disaster! Well, that feeling probably won't last, anyway. From 2009,
the Lone Ranger #17, "Resolve" Written by Brett Matthews, art by Sergio Cariello. Cover by John Cassaday.
Despite still being relatively new to the job, this issue the Lone Ranger and Tonto stop some robbers and a runaway stage, with a relative minimum of violence: I've been reading too much
Jonah Hex, because I was expecting a shotgun blast to the face, an arrow to the neck, and a guy thrown to his death, but the robbers are brought in alive. The Ranger and Tonto return the stage to the bank, with the tied-up robbers, and also drop off a big lump of silver with an old lady whose fence got smashed in the chase.
While Butch Cavendish and Winston Marle continue their respective plots, the Ranger and Tonto visit Linda and her boy Dan: while the Ranger is a terrible cook, he's still a catch! He tries to have a talk with Linda and explain his feelings; which kind of looks like he maybe thinks he can be the Lone Ranger
and still have a family, which seems like a pipe dream. Sure enough, Dan interrupts them, saying someone was there asking for the Lone Ranger...to be continued!
I've read a few of these, but I'm not sure why Cavendish was a psycho-killer in this: he's in a room full of people he'd already killed in that panel there, with a prospective victim trying to buy his way out, and Cavendish is seemingly uninterested in the money. I maybe just like the idea of even a bad guy, being self-aware enough to realize he didn't like what money was making him. This series only ran 25 issues, and there's ads in the back for
Man With No Name,
Zorro, and
the Boys, which Dynamite had picked up after DC dropped it. You'd suspect
the Boys to be the sales juggernaut there, and I feel like it sold better than anything else mentioned here, but I'm not sure it was overwhelmingly so.
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