Daisy Kutter: The Last Train is a four-part black-and-white

Black-and-white

Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...

 comic book

Comic book

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 series written and illustrated by Kazu Kibuishi

Kazu Kibuishi

Kazu Kibuishi is an American graphic novel author and illustrator. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology Flight and for creating the webcomic Copper. He is also the author and illustrator of the ongoing Amulet series...

 in 2004

2004 in comics

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 and published by Viper Comics

Viper Comics

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The story is a Science fiction Western

Science fiction Western

A science fiction Western is a work of fiction which has elements of science fiction in a Western setting. It is different from a Space Western, which is a frontier story indicative of American Westerns, except transposed to a backdrop of space exploration and settlement.A science fiction Western...

, a combination of Steampunk

Steampunk

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United...

 and Western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

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Plot

Daisy Kutter, a store-keeper who used to be a bandit, lives in a Steampunk

Steampunk (comics)

Steampunk was a steampunk/fantasypunk comic book series by artist Chris Bachalo and writer Joe Kelly, published by Wildstorm Comics' Cliffhanger imprint.-Publication history:...

version of the American Old West

American Old West

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 where robots coincide with steam locomotive

Steam locomotive

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s. Her friend and ex-partner in crime, Tom, now works as sheriff in the town.

Daisy loses at poker

Poker

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to a mogul named Mr. Winters who later hires her to rob a train to "test the integrity of the guard", a supposedly perfect robot defense. Mr. Winters supposedly wants to disprove this foolproof claim. In actuality, he is setting Daisy up for a fall.

Daisy and Tom go on the train to "rob" it, but a robot attacks them after they've completed the mission. Mr. Winters' plan was to prove his new robot by having it kill the famous Daisy Kutter. With the help of Tom, and some big guns, Daisy defeats the robot. Mr. Winters and Daisy also have a Western-style shoot out, with a giant robot involved.

Although Daisy and Tom survive, Tom is injured seriously and stuck in a wheelchair at the end of the book. Daisy takes over as sheriff, but she still enjoys a game of poker, as seen in chapter four's last scene.