Universal options 2 GUNS. I was surprised to see that one of the cooler crime comics that I've read in the last year is getting a movie adaptation. Reading it, I thought that it would make a good movie, and an even better regular comics series.
The plot summary, directly from the back of the book...Trench is a deep-cover DEA agent. Steadman is an undercover Naval Intelligence office. Both think the other is a simple gun-for-hire, the perfect accomplice to help steal a bank vault full of mob money for the good guys. And neither realizes that their caper is a gigantic double-cross from the mob, who's just tricked both men into stealing $50 million from the CIA! Now Trench and Steadman race headlong across the Southwest, guns blazing, desperately outrunning Feds and mobsters alike while scrambling madly to find some way of clearing both their names before they're carved on tombstones! A lightning-paced, plot-rich crime thriller for fans of Elmore Leonard, Ocean's 11 and the Italian Job, from comics legend Steven Grant!
You can check out the entire first issue for free over at the publisher's site. If you like what you see, then I highly recommend picking up the trade paperback of the miniseries (Amazon affiliate link).
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is this as good as 100 bullets or scalped? i've never heard of it.
Well, it's published by BOOM!, who are one of the bigger indy companies. (Big enough that Mark Waid left most of his DC work behind to head over there to be editor-and-chief.)
As for how good it is, I liked 2 GUNS enough to be pleased that it's being made into a movie and enough to recommend it. If you haven't already read the first issue free online, give it a go. That's about as good of a gauge as you can get about whether you'd like a series or not.
I'll say that in terms of tone, 2 GUNS is a bit more light hearted than 100 BULLETS and SCALPED. The pacing is a lot faster since it's a five issue limited series, so things aren't as dragged out. That's something that's a big bonus to me.
I like 100 BULLETS, but the gaps between issues are so long that I've completely forgotten virtually everything between issues, and I've given up on reading it until the whole thing is done. Once it's done, I'll just re-read it from the beginning. SCALPED is sort of the same for me, in the sense that I don't even bother trying to read it monthly anymore. I just wait until an arc is finished and then catch up. Even then, sometimes I forget what's going on, or wait until two arcs are done before I even think about it. I have that problem with a lot of the non-super hero stuff. Super hero stuff I can usually recall what's going on month to month. There are exceptions to this of course. There are some non-superhero stuff like THE BOYS or CRIMINAL that I can recall vividly when reading them month to month. There's also super hero stuff like NEW WARRIORS (which I don't even like that much) or YOUNG X-MEN, where I practically need a chart to figure out who the characters even are and what they're doing. (Or why I'm even reading a book that I don't particularly like.)
The next crime comic that I'm really looking forward to is Darwyn Cooke's PARKER adaptations.
i count down the days til the next boys comes out. i love that series so much. punisher max sometimes isn't to bad, but this final ennis arc i'm totally lost on. i think i'll wait for the HC to try and make sense of it all.
i do agree on 100 bullets. i read it at the beginning, stopped for a long time, then picked it up again starting at 85. bad idea. i was so lost. so i ended up picking up the first 9 trades and read them all. the character design is similar for a lot of the characters though, so that is still a bit confusing. i'm hopefully getting 10-12 in soon so i can finish it up and then start reading the final arc again.
as for scalped, i have a stack of them sitting in my room on my read pile. i started at 8 i think, and it was a 2 ish arc, then a couple one shots where his mother dies and shit.. i haven't read it since then. i like the series a good bit though.
i mustn't have heard of it since it's been out a while. i do usual read the previews front to back looking for stuff. as far as indys go though, i usually only read avatar and some dynamite stuff.
as far as reading books youi hate, my brother is like that. he's nuts for marvel and dc and buys every single tie in issue of secret invasion and final crisis. people like that make marvel a ton.. hence all the poorly done story arcs. WWH was the biggest tease i've ever read and after that i gave up on those.
I'm in agreement on this latest PUNISHER MAX arc. It's been boring, and a real anti-climax to a great run.
As far as reading books I hate, I do drop them. Sometimes, just to finish out an arc that I'm waiting for some sort of resolution on, I'll just download scans and read them once and never look at them again. (NEW WARRIORS being a perfect example of that. I've been waiting to see a confrontation between the new, bland team, and the remaining members of the original team, because I liked their book in the 90s.) My reading list is about half of what it was a few months ago from Marvel and DC, but I do pick up more indie stuff. (Even though I've always supported good indie books.)
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