The Austin-based artist is adapting his West Texas–set tale for the screen.
June 14, 2021
For all of Texas’s mythic qualities, its propensity for tall tales and its ample space for waging epic battles, there are surprisingly few comic books that set their stories here. There are even fewer Texas superheroes.
Other than Marvel’s borderline-offensive third-stringer Texas Twister, or that Spider-Man clone who briefly operated in Houston, the Lone Star State hasn’t seen too many do-gooder demigods call it home.
But Donny Cates is out to change all that. The Garland-bred, Austin-based comics creator is turning his limited series