The Sixth Gun: Sons of the Gun

author: Cullen Bunn

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.16

book published: 2013

rating: 3

read at: 2014/03/20

date added: 2014/03/20

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

The Sixth Gun: Sons Of The Gun is a prequel to the series. It features origin stories of a sort for the bad guys in the series. It might have been a bit helpful to have a brief description up front for casual readers of the series, but I was able to figure it out.



These are General Oliander Hume's men and in these stories they possess 4 of the guns. The men are Bill Sumter, Will Arcene, Ben Kinney and Silas Hedgepeth. It's an interesting take because the men are almost sympathetic here, but not in the rest of the series. They are all a bit monstrous and changing. Is it a result of the guns or something else? Each man gets his own chapter of the story, but there is an overarching storyline that connects them together. The more interesting stories are Will's and Silas'. Will fights monsters in the swamps and Silas becomes a doctor treating the plague.



It feels like a filler, and there isn't a lot that's new or needed, but the art by Brian Hurtt is good. It was worth reading just to get an eyeful of the great art. Enjoyable, but not the best place to start the series.



I received a review copy of the graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this graphic novel.





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