Origins

The question may not dominate your every waking thought, but I know it's always somewhere in your mind, nagging at you, tormenting your innate curiosity: How can Latigo Flint possibly be that fast on the draw?

Latigo Flint will now answer this question... with more questions.

How was it possible for Mozart to compose entire concertos by the age of three? How was Bobby Fisher born with the skills necessary to master the complex game of chess before his tenth birthday? How could Raymond Babbitt tell in less than a second that exactly 246 toothpicks had fallen to the floor? Not to go all Quantum on you, but how can light be both a particle and a wave?

Yes yes, our science has figured out a great many things; demons don't invade a chunk of chicken left out too long in the sun, that there is the salmonella bacterium. Ra doesn't get so furious with us that he causes the sun to disappear, it's just our little old moon wandering between us in it's elliptical orbit, and so on - but there is still some magic, some mystery in this world, and when you behold the awesome sight of Latigo Flint slapping thigh and shucking his authentic replica Colt Peacemaker revolvers from their hand tooled elk hide holsters so fast that your wide eyes can't process the difference between guns on hip and guns in hand, why then you'll believe... You'll believe in the unbelievable - the magic and mystery that is Latigo Flint, Quickest Quickdraw the world has ever known.



(Or you won't - the other possibility is that you'll claim it's faked or exaggerated or all of this is just an outright lie, but remember, nobody likes a Grumpy Guster. No one marries or stays married to a Grumpy Guster - Grumpy Gusters die miserable and alone.)