STORY SYNOPSIS

PIRATES, ZOMBIES AND A COWBOY!

Taking place in the mid 1800s, Roy Whales is a cowboy hunting buffalo and a
trader amongst the local Indian tribes. Roy catches a fever while out on the open
planes the same time a sickness spreads in his home of Red Town. Village folk who are
infected are acting erratic and eventually quarantined due to the virus. Roy who is
thought to be infected is thrown in with the sick by the town’s Priest and Marshal. Doli,
Roy’s wife begs and pleads for them to leave Roy alone and insists that he is not
infected. The Priest and Marshal do not listen to her and banish Roy with the rest of the
infected town’s people. The Priest councils Doli to find another man and hints that the
Marshal would be a perfect match. Roy’s fever breaks and he comes to. He regains
consciousness and finds himself chained to the other sick village people and stranded
in a boat in the middle of the ocean. One of the fever stricken town’s people tries to
attack Roy with crazed hungry eyes. Roy draws his revolver and shoots it in the head.
Other infected people on the boat start to moan to life and move towards him. Roy
breaks his chains that kept him shackled to the other diseased people and starts
emptying his rounds into the ravenous folk. Roy dives overboard and swims to a
nearby islands. While Roy scours the island for food and water he kills a wild boar and
sees a ship anchored off in the distance. Roy hikes with his dead boar to where the
vessel is. He sees a group of Pirates digging graves for their deceased.
Roy introduces himself to the motley crew, befriends them and they set up camp
together. The Pirates start a fire and they roast the boar and drink rum till they fall
asleep. That night Roy is awoken by the sound of chewing. He opens his eyes and
witnesses a horrific sight. The people from his town who he was chained up with were covered with boars blood eating along side the dead pirates that were buried only hours
before. One of the zombies grabs Roy and he shoots to kill. The Pirates wake up and
can’t believe their eyes. Roy commands them to fight their way free. Only Roy,
Barnabus and Remus survive the onslaught of zombies. They escape on the little row
boat the pirates docked on the islands beach. Roy and the two pirates can hear the
sounds of screaming coming from the island as they drift out into the ocean and towards
the main pirate vessel.
Once they get on board the Pirate ship which is named the Black Stockwood.
Roy is introduced to Captain Mose, a ruthless pirate captain that is notorious for his love
of gold and deception. But not after crossing words with a few of the crew.
Captain Mose takes Roy into his chambers and begs for him to share a meal.
Roy deducts that Captain Mose knows more than he is telling him and does not trust
him.
Roy is then shown to a bunk below decks and in the middle of the night having to
go relieve himself he stumbles upon a Frenchman taken prisoner by the pirates in their
brig. The Frenchman pleads with Roy to help him, telling him how Captain Mose is mad
and wrought with insanity. Roy does not pay attention to the prisoner but the
Frenchman keeps on babbling about a treasure and a key. Roy wakes up the next day
to the sound of the pirate crew hustling around. They are preparing to battle another
ship which was on the horizon. Everyone is on edge and Captain Mose orders no
quarter for those found aboard.
However when Captain Mose gets closer he discovers that the ship is
abandoned. He decides to search it and Roy tags along. Roy, Captain Mose and the other pirates go below deck on the thought to be abandoned ship and see blood
smeared all over the walls. Then out of the darkness zombies dressed in French
military cloths attack the company. Captain Mose drops the lantern and they are
drowned in darkness. Roy starts fire his pistols as the men retreat back to the upper
deck. One of Captain Mose’s crew members, Artamis punches a zombie in the mouth
during the scuffle and is bitten, but he hides it from the rest of the crew for fear of
walking the plank. Roy and Captain Mose escape back to the Black Stockwood pirate
ship and burn the infected French crew on the previously bordered ship.
Captain Mose decides to make port and offers Roy his freedom to leave if he
pleases. But before they can anchor at Bridgewater Village, a popular sea town where
a multitude of trading takes place Captain Mose and his crew are encountered by
Senior Cleary and his Spanish armada. Senior Cleary will not allow Captain Mose to
anchor for fear of any infected crew members. Captain Mose gives him his word
unbeknown to him that Artamis is infected and states that all his men are healthy.
Senior Cleary does not believe him and will only allow them to pass if they agree to be
boarded and inspected. Roy just wants to get on land so he can try to make his way
back to his home and insists that Captain Mose allow this parley. The crew is low on
supplies and need to replenish their stock. Captain Mose agrees and their ship is
boarded by the Spaniards.
Pirates Zombies and a Cowboy is an epic tale of ones man’s journey back to his
thought to be living wife. Roy crosses oceans, hikes over mountains and rides
horseback over the planes of deserts and woods in search of Doli. It is a story about
how this one westerner finds himself in places foreign to him and encounters not only the living dead but other races of people he never thought to have existed. He locks
horns with pirates, zombies, indian tribes, local townsfolk, odd doctors and scientists.
All of which he treats as untrustworthy and possibly dangerous. Everyone lives in fear
of the virus that has spread over across the land, turning the once living into flesh eating
zombies. Roy will make it back to Red Town but not after fighting and shooting his way
through the worst of which the world can throw at him. He discovers gold and wealth
insurmountable with the pirates and ideas and theories of the plague that are worth
more than any wealth known to man. He encounters a scientist named Benjamin Pratt
who played a major role in the infection and serves out his own brand of justice.
But even after all Roy has to overcome, nothing can surmount to the devastation
that is waiting for him back home in Red Town. His wife Doli was remarried by the
town’s Priest against her will to the Marshal, who is a mad dictator figure ruling the small
village with an unstable mind and killer mentality. The Marshal will stop at nothing to
keep order in his community and will sacrifice anything or anyone for the good of the
whole.
Roy eventually rescues his wife from the Marshal but not after burning his village
to the ground. The country is on the brink of Civil War and the North and South both
blame each other for causing the zombie outbreak.
Pirates Zombies and a Cowboy is a constantly evolving comic. The end is not in
sight for me as of yet because there are so many adventures in store for Roy. But like
all good things they must come to an end. So eventually the death of Roy will happen
but not until he leaves his mark on the world for the better.