Hey, fans of Western comic books! The 2025 iteration of New York Comic Con might be going on right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only place you can find cool comic books based on licensed properties.
Available right now from Virtual Comics, the comics imprint of video game publisher Piko Interactive LLC, is The Legend of Calamity Jane: The Devil Herself, a 32-page, full-color comic book by writer Steven A. Roman (that’s me!) and artist/colorist Eliseu Gouveia—the creative team behind the SWC projects The Saga of Pandora Zwieback #0, The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1, and Lorelei: Sects and the City.
The Legend of Calamity Jane was an Old West–themed animated series that debuted on Warner Bros.’s Kids WB slate of children’s programming in September 1997. A coproduction of Warner Bros. TV Animation with France-based Gangster Production, Contre-Allée, and Canal+, and set in and around Deadwood, South Dakota, in the 1870s, it presented a heavily fictionalized, heavily stylized take on the life and times of the real-life Martha Jane Canary, a gunslinging, bullwhip-toting cowgirl who was famously known across the United States as “Calamity Jane.”
The series starred Barbara Weber-Scaff (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) as the voice of Jane, joined by Frank W. Welker (Transformers, Freddy of Scooby-Doo fame) as Jane’s sidekick, Joe Presto, Clancy Brown (Superman: The Animated Series, SpongeBob SquarePants) as Wild Bill Hickok, Tim Matheson (Jonny Quest, Animal House) as Captain John O’Rourke, and Michael Horse (Twin Peaks, Claws) as Comanche tribe leader Chief Chayna Walker. Supporting roles were performed by such well-known actors as Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Batman: The Animated Series), Robert Patrick (Peacemaker, Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Larry Drake (Darkman), and Luke Perry (Riverdale, Beverly Hills 90210).
The Legend of Calamity Jane: The Devil Herself is a one-shot special set in the present day that finds Jane on the hunt for a stolen relic: a gun that belonged to her old friend Wild Bill Hickok, who in real life was shot and killed in Deadwood in 1876. But more suprising than the identity of the gun’s current owner—a series villain from her past—is the even bigger mystery it sets up: How can Calamity Jane still be alive today, and not looking a day older than she did in the 1870s…?
The Legend of Calamity Jane: The Animated Series DVD set and The Legend of Calamity Jane: The Devil Herself are both available from the Piko Interactive Store, so be sure to head over there and catch up with all of Jane’s exciting adventures!
