Coming to you from us exclusively from BOOM! Studios, we have a preview for the penultimate issue of “Six Gun Gorilla!”
I don’t think I’m alone in saying that “6GG” surprised the crap out of me in how good it was. Not to ostensibly diminish the work of Spurrier or Stokely, but when someone tells you they have a comic about a gorilla who uses guns in a Western, you probably expect a gorilla who uses a gun in a Western. Perhaps it’s even a comedy, with great puns and classic tropes utilized for comic effect.
And while I’d still love to read that comedy/Western (which someone should really make and then get published, now that I think about it), Spurrier and Stokely’s “6GG” was something else entirely: a sci-fi/Western epic with an incredible concept, balls to the wall action and an astonishing execution. It juggles multiple plots alongside multiple tropes for multiple genres, but it does it rather seamlessly in order to create something beyond anything what you’d expect out of a book like this. It literally defies expectation, and is my favorite thing Spurrier and Stokely are doing right now (let alone together).
It doesn’t look like anything is going to slow down for the penultimate issue, out next week. I’m stoked.
Take a look:
“Six Gun Gorilla” #5 is in stores next week. Here’s the solicitation:
Written by Si Spurrier
Illustrated by Jeff Stokely
Covers by Ramon PerezIt’s a Weird West showdown like you’ve never seen before: SixGun Gorilla faces off against the sadistic, fourarmed bounty hunter Auchenbran in a dustup for the ages! And while the battle rages, Blue discovers that he was brought to the Blister for a reason, and his seemingly inconsequential quest is anything but
