Written by Jonathan Hensleigh

Story by Mark Collie & Jonathan Hensleigh

Illustrated by Nicholas Burns

Chapter 1 – BOOK OF MY BLUES

EXT. RURAL SOUTHERN CROSSROADS - DAY (SUNSET) Like Robert Johnson before him, Jesse Wayne, weary and haggard from a lifetime of wandering, arrives at the crossroads of life....

Chapter 2 – BORN READY

EXT. BOXCAR ROLLING THROUGH MISSISSIPPI DELTA - NIGHT The long, lean figure of Jesse Wayne Hardin, Sr., hangs out the side door of a boxcar firing on DIXIE MAFIA pursuing in an open-top Lincoln on an adjacent road. Bullets RICOCHET nearly hitting his paramour ROSE and newborn son JESSE WAYNE HARDIN JR....
EXT. BOXCAR ROLLING THROUGH MISSISSIPPI DELTA - NIGHT The long, lean figure of Jesse Wayne Hardin, Sr., hangs out the side door of a boxcar firing on DIXIE MAFIA pursuing in an open-top Lincoln on an adjacent road. Bullets RICOCHET nearly hitting his paramour ROSE and newborn son JESSE WAYNE HARDIN JR....

R – MATCHBOX

INT. ROADHOUSE - NIGHT It's Saturday night and the joint is stomping. On stage Jesse Wayne Hardin kicks into a howling rendition of Carl Perkin's "Matchbox." Seated at the bar watching is a platinum blonde with nothing wholesome on her mind.
INT. ROADHOUSE - NIGHT It's Saturday night and the joint is stomping. On stage Jesse Wayne Hardin kicks into a howling rendition of Carl Perkin's "Matchbox." Seated at the bar watching is a platinum blonde with nothing wholesome on her mind.

Chapter 12 – SON OF A GUN

EXT. MEMPHIS ALLEYWAY OFF BEALE STREET - NIGHT Jesse Wayne exits the Memphis Club via the stage door, sensing danger out on Beale Street. There are men waiting for him. These men are not his friends Jesse draws his .45 pistol and...

Meet Rockabilly Hitman, singer Jesse Wayne Hardin, who by night is an avenger of evil, as he travels the hard back roads from Muscle Shoals to Memphis, from the Mississippi Delta to Music City.

Watch for more first-look images from Nicholas Burns, more first draft script notes from Jonathan Hensleigh, and more first sample tracks from Mark Collie’s Graphic Album, Book of My Blues.

GRAPHIC NOVEL COMING SOON

Check out BORN READY, the first release from the accompanying album, BOOK OF MY BLUES by Mark Collie.

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