SIX-GUN GORILLA #1
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Artist: Jeff Stokely
Cover by Ramon Perez
Size: 0 pages
Price: 3.99
This was pitch-perfect for me. The writing was witty & quick & established its characters. Spurrier doesn’t explain every element, but the war-speak & such gives the sense of a big, elaborate & somewhat foreign world.
The art was great; slightly “cartoony” – in the vein of Guy Davis, James Harren, Tyler Crook – so not TOO cartoonish, but definitely stylized & really interesting & adept. Colors were really, really good too – expressive without overpowering the story.
What stood out to me most were two things… 1.) The pacing was extraordinarily well-executed. It felt full without ever feeling bloated or slowing down. The dialogue built our lead character (& others) naturally but quickly, then got out of the way for the art to drop us into the war-time action. Back & forth & so on… In the span of 22 pages, I am now totally invested in a main character that set out to end his life uselessly.
2.) There are all these seeming tropes that the creators play with – a reality-tv-obsessed society, gunslingers, a talking gorilla, steampunk-esque tech limitations, etc. – but these never feel cheap or cliched. We are given bits of a LOT of information, just enough to intrigue & to wonder about the future of the characters & world.
The art was stylized & kinetic, while Spurrier writes like he assumes an intelligent readership. Everything worked here in unison.
… I’ve bought a lot of #1 issues lately (The Wake, Jupiter’s Legacy, Dream Merchant, etc.), trying to fill a void left by some recently-ended titles – but this is the first I’ll be sticking with, & I am so damn excited to see where it goes from here.
Art: 5 - Excellent
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Hell yeah! Looks like I’ll be making the drive. Thanks a million!
Cool, let me know what you thought of it after reading. Curious to see if this was custom-tailored to my tastes or just objectively good…
Undoubtedly this was very good! All those little touches really set the book in motion, and we get thrown into this new world just like Blue. I know this was gonna be something good the second I noticed the blue eyes in the “blues”. This was well thought-through, the art was AMAZING, a little Sean Murphyish, clean, detailed, “kinetic” is perfect, slightly cinematic too. There’s some mystery going on here. I liked the steam punk weapons. Thanks again for the review, I’m stoked I picked this up. It’s kinda funny: its called Six Gun Gorilla, but at the end if the issue, I was like, “So what the hell’s up with gorilla!?” But it works because Blue is very interesting, and the world(s) are begging for more exploration. Looking forward to #2, and more about this bad ass gorilla.
Oh yeah, one more thing: Auchenbran, the psycho that works for the TV network, give me more of him. Is like to see the Gorilla get a piece of him. Guy’s on one page and I already hate him.
Spurrier’s pistol-packin’ simian is going to have a little company this summer:
http://www.sixgungorilla.com/
Yup. That’s right. TWO Six-Gun Gorilla comics. At the same time. What are the odds!? The first issue is available as a digital download for $1.99 at:
http://blog.sixgungorilla.com/
I just got my first review at the Ain’t It Cool News Comic Review page:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62721#9
I really hope that Si doesn’t hold any hard feeling towards me, because I certainly have none towards him. This is obviously a case of what Hollywood refers to as “parallel development” (i.e. VOLCANO and DANTE’S PEAK, ARMAGEDDON and DEEP IMPACT, etc.). If anything, I can’t wait to see what he’s done with the concept. As for mine, it’s just a straight-up Western comic.
Cheers,
B