The Sixth Gun Vol. 5: Winter Wolves (5)

This ongoing story is fantastic, and the interesting developments in this volume are no exception. Highly recommended! This particular issue is a "coming together" story, where some not so pleased characters must team up to accomplish their goals. Great stuff.

This series just keeps getting better! I love the characters, the writing and the art. After each and every new volume I read I'm on Google searching for the release date of the next volume.

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I'm starting to get a little concerned. Two straight collections that have progressively worse. Here, I feel like we're given a filler arc. The Wendigo storyline didn't feel heavy enough. It never seemed viable. I liked that the entire group each got their moment to shine, for the most part. I would love to see more of the widow Hume. Brian Hurtt continues to excel on art duties. Overall, the book needs a shot of adrenaline.

Drake and Becky are looking for a tracker to help them find the evil witch, Missy Hume, and accidentally stumble into a winter realm where they are hunted by a dangerous woodland spirit: the Wendigo. Meanwhile, in his search for Drake and Becky, Gord makes some unlikely allies in Kirby Hale and Asher Cobb - but the Sword of Abraham is hot on their heels.I’ll just come right out and say it: filler. That’s what Book 5: Winter Wolves reads like. The Sixth Gun’s story is excellent - six enchanted guns which, when united, allows the wielder, good or bad, to remake the world their way - and I love the colourful cast of rogues, bandits, witches, golems and mummies against the romantic frontier days of the wild west. But the story of Becky and co’s mission to defeat the widow Hume is put on hold for this book while the two putter around Narnia slowly figuring out how to defeat the Wendigo, and Gord and the others run in circles.It’s still written well by Cullen Bunn and there are flashes of brilliance like when we find out about Drake’s past and his last encounter with a Wendigo, and Brian Hurtt’s artwork is as gorgeous as ever, but for me the book didn’t come to life until the final chapter when Becky takes the fight to Missy Hume single-handedly.The Winter Wolves storyline isn’t bad but I’d have preferred it to be a done-in-one or two story rather than pad out an entire book - the story doesn’t hit the high gears until the final few pages with the reveal of some new characters and an exciting new direction for the next book. I’m looking forward to the sixth book but the fifth one felt like a bit of a wash - the first time the series has been less than brilliant!

The Sixth Gun, Vol. 5:Winter Wolves is, obviously, a continuation of the series. It's sort of a weird West story where magic and magical creatures exist. The main story line involves a series of six guns that can do extraordinary things. There are people who want to either possess the guns for good or evil or who want to outright destroy them. Often these people find themselves on the same side as they battle bigger things.There are a couple story lines in this volume. In one of them, two people, Drake Sinclair and Becky Montcrief, find themselves in possession of 5 of the 6 guns. This makes them a highly sought after target. They find themselves trapped in an alternate world that is frozen. They are trapped by a wendigo that wants to make a trade.In another story, 2 men and a mummy are being chased by agents of a group called the Sword of Abraham, who want to acquire the guns for their own means. There is a mad chase and an interesting culmination to that story line.I found the story engaging, but it has lots of flashbacks, so it doesn't move the story forward as much as some might like. I love the combination of western and supernatural. Cullen Bunn's story is tight and full of surprises. Brian Hurtt's illustrations are crisp and scary. I loved the art and look forward to more volumes of this story.I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this graphic novel.

I consider The Sixth Gun to be one of, if not the, best serialized comic in recent memory, and some of the best work currently being done in the medium. It's fun, clever, well-written, beautifully drawn, masterfully colored, and brimming with engaging characters and thoughtful reimaginings of western folklore and legend. To those who haven't read it, I usually liken it to Pirates of the Caribbean for its tone (genre adventure with fantasy and horror elements interwoven with the expected genre conceits).Volume 5, "Winter Wolves," is the fifth story arc in the main series, and is a bit slower in pace than the earlier volumes, as is the 6th (not yet collected at the time of this review) arc "Ghost Dance." Within the framework of the larger narrative, this feels to be that middle section where things stop being "fun," where the long-reaching consequences of the characters' action or inaction start to become known, and the likely impossibility of the tasks before them starts to become manifest. This is Luke in Dagobah, Frodo in the swamps, etc. The structural necessity of the ritarded pace is, luckily, balanced by that aformentioned cleverness on the part of Bunn, Hurtt, and Crabtree. The villain that Drake and Becky have to face is a wonderful riff on a traditional western baddie, and the means by which it protects itself from the protagonists is arresting. And the sequences with the unlikely duo of rogueish lothario Kirby Smith and increasingly grumpy nine-foot-tall mystery mummy Asher Cobb showcase that the comic's creators can find the fun and wit in even the darkest situations. The duo's chase scene also features some of the loveliest and unlikeliest coloring one could expect from a book set in the Wild West.

In Trade Paperback 5 geht das Road Movie um die sechs Pistolen weiter. Drake und Becky geraten dabei in eine eisige Parallelwelt in der die Kälte nur scheinbar die größte Gefahr darstellt. Sie sehen sich einer mystischen Gefahr gegenüber der zu entkommen Drake alles abverlangt. Unterdessen sucht Gord, der die Lösung zur Vernichtung der Pistolen zu kennen meint, seine beiden Freunde. Zwei unwahrscheinliche Begleiter unterstützen ihn dabei, was angesichts der Verfolgung durch die Jungs vom Sword of Abraham" auch dringend nötig ist.In Volume 5 gibt es eine Menge Action, denn in beiden Handlungssträngen gilt es Leib und Leben zu verteidigen. Dennoch findet Cullen Bunn Zeit seine Charaktere weiter zu entwickeln. Sowohl Drake und mehr noch Becky zeigen überraschende Seiten. Becky scheint weit mehr in die Geschichte der Pistolen verwoben zu sein als bislang klar war.Bunn schafft es in jedem Trade der Geschichte neue Wendungen zu geben. In jeder seiner Figuren steckt mehr als man ahnte und immer neue Gefahren tun sich auf. Cool und unterhaltsam erzählt, mit der richtigen Mischung aus schneller Action und ruhig erzählten Passagen.Das Artwork ist ok, mehr nicht. Hurtt könnte mitunter etwas mehr Details in seine Panels einbauen, seine Figuren sind aber ausdrucksstark.Unterm Strich ein erneut guter Band der Reihe und man ist gespannt wie die Story weiter geht. So soll's sein.

Schon der 5. Teil und mein Mann ist nach wie vor begeistert, was die Entwicklung der Story angeht.