Popgun Vol. 1 is a comic anthology or sampler from Image. Published in 2007, it is made up of 54 short stories over 440-some pages.
As you might imagine, the stories are hit and miss; though, because they cover a lot of written and artistic ground, my hits may very well be your misses.
“The New Brighton Archaeological Society,” written by Mark Andrew Smith and drawn by Matthew Weldon, is a great little recurring story about four cute, round-headed kids orphaned when their parents (the world’s greatest explorers) die looking for the Frozen City in Antarctica. It takes its tone from the turn of the last century pulps, but in a lighthearted way.
“Sanz Pantz: Ninja Platypus” (written and drawn by Chris Moreno) is a fun little homage to TMNT, and if “Solomon Finch vs. 100 Vampire Bikini Girls” by Julio Figueroa (writer) and Chamakoso (artist) isn’t part of a bigger whole, I’m a little disappointed in, well, somebody!
There’s lots of stuff here, sci-fi, horror, manga-style, humour, even a few super-hero stories. Lots to recommend it, and there’s two more volumes besides.
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