OMS: Sundown

OMS: Sundown was a six part mini series that ran it's original publication in the spring of 1986. It featured Old Man Suddard returning to his home to cause terror and fear only to accidentally disturb the resting place of an ancient vampire named Count Horton. The old man must set aside his differences with the teens of the town in order to take out the count and his ever growing undead army.

Featuring a new side to Suddard in which he is the protagonist, Sundown deals with various topics such as love and the symbol of hope in an ever changing world. The new edgier design of Suddard helped to boost the comic's sales after it came under serious pressure of cancellation due to the writer's choice to have a scene in which Suddard randomly played a banjo for forty eight pages.

After a lengthy battle, Suddard vanquished the Count only to return to slaughtering teenagers at the end of the series. The comic did however manage to introduce the Suddard franchise to a whole new audience who may not have heard of Suddard up to this point.

Trivia

The new look of Suddard used in "Sundown" which included the addition of a flamethrower as part of Suddard's left arm, was later used in 1993 when the company behind the franchise lauched the comercially available perfume product, "Untamed, by Suddard".

The second issue of Sundown also featured a guest artist in the form of Chubbs Power, the voice actor who lent his voice to the character of Lynch the Turtle in the Suddard and friends happy hour animated series from the late seventies.