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No Name on the Bullet by yellow_caballero

Miracle on Gunsmoke! When the beloved angel Vash the Stampede visits the poor and downtrodden, hope follows in his wake. His mission may save humanity or destroy it, but only one thing is certain: that he's the most obnoxious brother of all time. Meanwhile, travelling physician Millions Knives just wants to atone for his past by saving lives and taking care of his brother once and for all. Life would be a lot easier if he could just kill off the female reporters and bratty priest dragging him around, but apparently murder was bad or something. It's going to be a long road to July. Roleswap AU.

I've done quite a few binds of yellow_caballero's work, but I think this is my favorite of the ones I've done. The fic is another one of those patented yellow_caballero "here's a version of a character that you will fall in love with and that exists in no other fic aside from this one" stories. I love this version of Knives, I love the question of what it means to be a good person, and I love that when he tries to have his power level 9000 moment, he promptly gets grounded. Excellent fic, no notes.

As for the bind, I do think it's one of the best books I've ever produced. The entire design was based around creating a book that at first glance would look like a pulp western but would reveal itself to be science fiction if you looked more closely (just like Trigun).

To that end, this bind features my first dust jacket created using public domain art (Mountains of Auvergne, Paul Huet). It also features some of the best foil work I've ever done. The foiled designs on the covers are inspired by the plant markings from Trigun: Stampede. I pulled the patterns from some awesome art by NerdyLazorz (full portfolio—including a lot of fantastic Trigun art—and social links here!), who was kind enough to give me permission to adapt the art for my cover design, and I'm so thrilled with how it all turned out.

About the Bind

• Text Block: 24/60 lb warm white legal paper, bound as a rounded and backed quarto
• Endpapers: chiyogami (~80 gsm) with a white and gold sayagata design
• Case Style: in-boards three piece bradel binding, with the spine covered in Canapetta bookcloth in natural and the covers covered with Allure bookcloth in paprika
• Cover: foiled using the WRMK foil quill attachment with a Silhouette Portrait 3 and WRMK gold foil
• Dust Jacket: printed on 32 lb coated text paper and covered with contact paper

A million more pictures, including excerpts from the interior, below the cut.