Stereotypical 1980's New Jersey carnival maintenance man Leroy Stankowitz sustains a major head injury and wakes up in the year 1874 as a recognized and well-known contender for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. He's led on a barnstorming boxing tour heading west for California by wagon, managed by an eccentric and mysterious quack-medicine elixir salesman named Charles Barnabas. Though Leroy remains deeply suspicious and fearful that a conspiratorial darkness lurks just behind the curtain of his surroundings, he's left with little choice but to continue onward into uncertainty. Known to the people of the age as Homer "the Odyssey" Grant, he fights all comers on the increasingly strange and dangerous journey westward to hopeful championship glory. "A rollicking adventure somehow locating the sweet spot between Rocky, Westworld and Alice in Wonderland, Golden Boy is fast-paced and often hilarious. Part Douglas Adams and part dime store western, it is a vivid, strange and unique entry into the world of fiction." Cover artwork by Koen Korstanje