Gun Honey

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For anyone of a certain age, the comparisons with Peter O’Donnell’s iconic pair, Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, are inevitable, although Joanna Tan completely lacks Modesty’s unshakable moral code, but other than that, the trope of the dark, athletic beauty and the rugged blond sidekick is much the same, only with Joanna hailing from Singapore rather than a war-torn region at the east end of the Mediterranean. I started reading this series out of respect for Charles Ardai, the great work with Hard Case Crime. She is assigned a handler, Brook Barrow, and they try to find out who was the man in prison who received her most recent gun.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. While it's unlikely to win over those that aren't already in love with the genre, fans of Hard Case Crime's previous publications or similar series like Jon Sable: Freelance or Criminal will want to give this a try. Ultimately Gun Honey plants the landing by the final pages and readers get what amounts to a twisted Jane Bond type story.She has a tragic background as her father and brothers were killed when someone blew up their place.

Everything is a bit skimmed over when the author could have easily gone into more detail to flesh out these characters and this world. And the art uses the character’s ample charms effectively as one of many weapons in the character’s arsenal. When things go awry after effortlessly smuggling a firearm into a high-security prison that leads to mass casualties, she finds herself trapped and forced by the U. It managed to be sexy without going over the top and I liked it that the main character was far from a superhero who did everything correctly.An experience you feel embroiled in, a feeling that you’re being dragged along by the story and all you can do is hang on for dear life. I gambled on this because I saw a few friends had gave high marks and they had an awesome variant cover.

The thing is, I think it depends on what your tastes are and your willingness to somewhat suspend belief. And when the publisher's Hard Case Crime, a publishing company literally founded to bring works inspired by those early pulp novels to market, I understand how they get there. Also, our hot and sexy lead with the huge tits had almost no distinctive personality traits beyond some very general archetypes. When a gun smuggled into a high-security prison leads to the death of dozens and the escape of a brutal criminal, notorious weapons smuggler Joanna Tan is enlisted by the U. With Gun Honey I think you need to be open to pulp fiction/noir storytelling to truly appreciate how great and fun this first issue is.She's amoral and yet has a code of ethics that she might have a hard time explaining, but the reader can see. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Fans of the first graphic novel and classic pulp crime fiction will get a thrill out of this fast-paced, mystery thriller. It's a story of a sexy femme fatale, who likes to wear tight fitting, revealing clothing, almost as much as she likes flying around the world and getting up to all sorts of violent shenanigans.

It's now up to Joanna to prove her innocence, and find the woman responsible for framing her for murder! There are some moments here that make me uncomfortable but it's an interesting start for a character that I'm interested in seeing more of. More than any kind of central theme, pulp and grindhouse are about using certain aesthetics and elements to create a specific experience.She’s developed her skills over years, starting with her father, to become the world’s most effective gun runner, but her personality projects relaxed confidence that isn’t pretentious or condescending. If Tarantino wrote a comic, trying to encapsulate everything that’s flagrantly awesome about the crime grindhouse subgenre, it would turn out looking like Gun Honey. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. So the story gets darker, moving from the daring set up of the opening pages, where she poses on a beach to catch the eye of a tycoon as part of a job, to an attempted infiltration of a crime syndicate.