Spurrier Aims for Future Western Weirdness With "Six-Gun Gorilla"

[CBR News]

Writer Si Spurrier reveals the secrets behind and exclusive art from the legend of "Six-Gun Gorilla," a bizarre pulp character from the '30s who rides again in a new future-based Western from BOOM! Studios.


Full article here.

[Sifighter]

I already put this on my pull list. I love Si Spurriers writing on X-men Legacy and I love Boom Studios and its weird stories like Deathmatch and Fanboys Vs Zombies. I can't wait for june so this can come out.

[hondobrode]

I am SOOOO in ! This sounds insanely cool ! Tragic we don't know the original creators, but at least their work lives on.

This sounds like a great tv show too.

BOOM ! onward

[Alton]

Writer Si Spurrier reveals the secrets behind and exclusive art from the legend of "Six-Gun Gorilla," a bizarre pulp character from the '30s who rides again in a new future-based Western from BOOM! Studios.


Full article here.

Sadly the more Spurrier tries to explain his point the worse it gets and I'm normally a junkie for this sort of thing.I pass on this one

[Lot 49]

You had me at "Six Gun Gorilla"...

[The Adventurer]

Well, that looks amazing.

[reubs]

You had me at "Six Gun Gorilla"...

Same here; the concept sounds really, really cool. I can't wait to check this out. I don't know much about Boom! studios, though. Will this likely be an ongoing, and what are their cover prices usually set as?

[EMeadow]

Same here; the concept sounds really, really cool. I can't wait to check this out. I don't know much about Boom! studios, though. Will this likely be an ongoing, and what are their cover prices usually set as?

Prices are $3.99. And its not an ongoing. Its a six issue mini.

[agent_graves]

Really cool concept, I'm a definitely check this out...

[The Steve Rogers]

At first this sounded ridiculous but after reading the article and looking at the sample art I'm going to have to try #1 just to check it out. The concept sounds crazy but sometimes crazy works.

[Alton]

At first this sounded ridiculous but after reading the article and looking at the sample art I'm going to have to try #1 just to check it out. The concept sounds crazy but sometimes crazy works.

I'd rather a Wild West setting but I'll reconsider it in trade when I hear what you guys think of it later. I think Spurrier had good intentions but got a little convoluted and threw in too much.

[felneymike]

Point 1 - As this was a DC Thomson story, it is not public domain, as anybody who had bothered to do the slightest bit of research about British comics would quickly realise. DC Thomson are still publishing comics today, namely The Beano and the brilliant Commando. Not that I'd expect any of you lot to know about that.

Point 2 - "Pulp"? Piss off. It's a story paper!

Point 3 - Can you thick scum stop ruining traditional British characters? You change them so much you might as well just come up with a new name too. Like that crap where Dan Dare was in the Royal Navy (no doubt because that sounds more Burrritishhh than the international Spacefleet from the original stories - patriotism through the filter of clueless red Islingtonites). I just hope DC Comics don't start digging in to all of the characters they are "holding hostage". I bet they'd have Sexton Blake as some dark anti-establishment anti-hero, or Captain Justice as as Burrritishhh Batman of the 30's who fights against the empire. Is it really worth ruining the legacy of these characters (and obscuring Google searches by people interested in the real one) for a dubiously-useful "X returns!" blurb in British tabloids, written and read by people who will never buy it.

[The Adventurer]

Point 3 - Can you thick scum stop ruining traditional British characters?

Simon Spurrier is a Brit (also one of the best writers in his field). So its cool.

[BChristgau]

Well it looks like this pistol-packin' primate is going to have a little competition:

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