Inspired by an obscure public domain character, SIX-GUN
GORILLA is created and written by Simon Spurrier (X-MEN: LEGACY, CROSSED: WISH
YOU WERE HERE) with interior art by Jeff Stokely (FRAGGLE ROCK, THE REASON FOR
DRAGONS) and featuring a cover by Eisner Award-winning artist Ramón Pérez (A
TALE OF SAND, WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN), SIX - GUN GORILLA is a pulpy mash-up
of Western weirdness and lo-fi science fiction unlike anything else on the
stands!
Welcome to “the Blister” -- a bizarre other-world
colonized by humans sometime in the 22nd century, which quickly became a
hotly-contested source of fertile land and natural resources long ago exhausted
on Earth. In this new frontier, a rogue gunslinger and his companion wander
across a wilderness in the grips of a civil war, encountering lawlessness,
natives, and perversions of civilization in a world at the crossroads between
the past and the future. The fact that said gunslinger is a bio-surgically
modified silverback gorilla toting a pair of enormous revolvers is neither here
nor there.
“The words “Six-Gun Gorilla” have squatted in my psyche –
as immovable as only a revolver-packin’ primate can be – since I first heard
them. How could I pass up the chance to breathe new life into such an insane,
evocative title (so sinfully neglected since its inception as a 1939 pulp
serial)?” explained Spurrier, “In deference to its unknown writer, our new
version has mutated into a comic unlike any other: a relentless blast of
deconstructive weirdness, gunsmoke, surreal frontiers and Awesome Ape Action.
Six-Gun Gorilla is a head-poppin’, civil-warrin’, wilderness-crossin’ epic with
sly sci-fi notes: a love-letter to the Western genre, signed with a flourish by
a black-furred and blood-drenched fist.”
SIX - GUN GORILLA #1 will arrive in stores on June 12th
with a cover by Ramón Pérez and carries a retail price of $3.99 under Diamond
order code APR130933. And don’t forget to ask your retailer about the incentive
cover by James Harren (B.P.R.D.)!