Written by Cullen Bunn and Brian HurttArt by Brian Churilla
The Sixth Gun is one of my favourite independent titles, which delivers a steady fix of mystical Western adventure. I was a little surprised to see that the title was spawning a mini-series, Sons of the Gun.
This new title, co-written by regular series writer Cullen Bunn and artist Brian Hurtt, is focussed on the original owners of The Six, a set of magical six-shooters that each have a different ability. These guns were brought into the world by the Confederate General Hume, who was the main villain in the series's first arc, and were spread between his henchmen. Eventually, Hume was captured and imprisoned.
This issue is about Bloodthirsty Bill, who has the first gun, which is as strong as a cannon. When we first meet him, he's close to death in a desert, but is soon saved by a group of thieves led by a man named Pagan Sam, who does some business with the Pinkertons, and is going about collecting mystical artifacts.
I found this issue a little slow in getting started, but it eventually delivered the same general feel of the main series. Brian Churilla, fresh off the excellent Secret History of D.B. Cooper, provides the art. Churilla is a great artist, and while this story doesn't give him the same chances to cut loose as Cooper did, he does a fine job of sticking to the look that Hurtt established for this title.
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