My absolute favourite comic shop, Purple Gorilla Comics at the Crossroads Market in Calgary, had a great dollar bin sale a few years back, and I picked up a complete run of the first 20 issues of this series. Mike Grell's work pulled me in with The Warlord, so I figured, for such a great price, I'd pick up some of his other work. I'm not disappointed.
I've noted before that Grell, at least in Warlord, pays a lot of attention to both male and female physiques, and that attention is definitely on display here, though perhaps slightly less-unclothed. His attention to the story remains excellent, and I'm already sucked into the story. A bounty hunter whose day job/secret identity is a children's book author? Yeah, that's just weird enough to suck me in.
What I'll say right up front is that I have a good deal of trouble with characters that rely on firearms. I'm with Batman on this one that a gun is a coward's weapon (see his convo with Grifter in the JLA-WildC.A.T.s crossover). I'm attempting to see past it with this series, on account of my respect for Grell as a creator, but the more we aggrandize guns, the harder it becomes to phase them, and their violence, out of society. I'm a big picture kind of thinker ;).
More to follow.
More - Mike Grell was one of the first great discoveries I made in the early days of my project.
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