WEIRD WESTERN TALES Weird Western Tales Cover by Darwyn Cooke. "Tall Tale" by Paul Pope, "Serial Hero" by Dave Gibbons, and "This Gun for Hire" by Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett. In "This Gun for Hire", Winfred Bartlett wants to be a farmer but local ranchers would rather run him off his land. So he mail-orders a six gun and practices, not that practice will improve his paltry skills. Yet when the final showdown takes place, Winfred isn't as helpless as you might expect.