My latest review for PopMatters.com was posted earlier this week. For this review I took a look at The Sixth Gun #16, a title I haven’t reviewed in nearly a year.
From issue to issue, Oni Press’ The Sixth Gun doesn’t waste any time, moving from chapter to chapter with abandon, all the while building a weird world of gunslingers, outlaws, mystics, mummies, zombies, preachers and other worldly creatures. It’s a testament to the Horror-Western subgenre that has come in vogue in recent years. The unsettling nature of its plot is only enhanced by its dusty trail, 19th century aesthetic. With 15 issues published, how much more could this Weird Western yarn have left? Plenty.
There is an epic nature to the book, partly due to the setting and the context of the period, but also due to the layer upon layer of story writer Cullen Bunn has built. It is quite the work, both in so far as one-off issue storytelling and the whole combined to represent the immensity of the entire project.
Read my full review: The Sixth Gun’s Thrilling and ScaryWorld
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