Blue-eyed+Devil



Amos Callico is more like Tony Soprano than your typical sheriff, shaking down the saloon owners for protection money. But then again, he has big ambitions. He wants to be President of the United States one day. And in BLUE-EYED DEVIL, he is going to find an opportunity to get there by fighting Indians. Unfortunately, much like that other great Indian fighter who wanted to become President, George Armstrong Custer, his military skills might be somewhat questionable. Just to make things interesting, his rival for power in the town is General Horatio Laird, formerly of the Confederate States of America, and accused not only of retreating but also of committing war crimes against civilians. But the accusations seem to come from Callico’s wife, who has a bit of an interesting past herself. When the saloon owners hire Cole and Hitch to be their own private security force, Callico becomes their enemy. When Cole throws the General’s son out of a saloon after he starts abusing a whore, our protagonists find themselves with yet another powerful enemy. Callico says to them, “This is exactly why I don’t want no vigilante law enforcing going on. There’s a distinguished citizen being insulted by some whores and you side with the whores.” But that’s the thing: Cole operates within his own code of right and wrong, which does not take into account what the powerful want. And this series, narrated in the first person by Cole’s faithful sidekick, West Point-trained Everett Hitch, is really an exploration of the personal code of honor of the Old West.