Read an exclusive excerpt from The Undertaker, Volume One: The Gold Eater and The Dance of the Vultures from Abram ComicArts.
“Fans of the modern western will be thoroughly charmed by the witty and inscrutable undertaker Jonas Crow as he gets tangled up in the lives—and deaths—of the folks in California of yesteryear,” said Abrams Comic Arts Publisher Joseph Montagne via press release. “Ralph Meyer’s immersive art will plunge you into the deadly sun-bleached deserts and desperate dark saloons of Crow’s world, as Xavier Dorison’s relentlessly surprising storytelling drags you down the twisting dirt roads of the wild west in a wooden-wheeled hearse to its glittering and explosive conclusion.”
The Undertaker, Volume One: The Gold Eater and The Dance of the Vultures Preview
Check out five pages and the cover from the March 31, 2026 publishing graphic novel here! Click the thumbnails for a larger version:
The Undertaker, Volume One: The Gold Eater and The Dance of the Vultures Official Synopsis:
Jonas Crow is not your average mortician. Tall, lean, and accompanied by a carrion-eating vulture, he travels the Old West in a black hearse, providing final rites for those who can afford them. But Jonas is a man with a past as dark as the clothes he wears—and his newest client is about to make life very difficult for the living. When the wealthy and hated mining tycoon Joe Cusco summons Crow, it’s for a peculiar request: Cusco knows he’s dying, and he plans to take his vast fortune with him.
By swallowing his hoard of gold nuggets before drawing his last breath, he turns his own body into a literal treasure chest. Now Jonas Crow must transport the gold-filled corpse across a desert crawling with outlaws, desperate miners, and Cusco’s own vengeful former employees. With a straight-laced English governess and a mysterious woman named Rose by his side, Crow must navigate a trail of greed where the line between the “good guys” and the vultures is razor-thin.
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