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Posted on Feb 24, 2004 - 07:34 PM by Admin |
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In my never ending quest to find the next big thing in Comicdom, I have discovered another "must read" comic book. However, you won't find this comic on any spinner rack! This must read adventure can only be found online! Take a lot of action, monsters, a magician who has seen better days and throw in a tough as nails stripper and you get Gun Street Girl, a comic book that will keep you online and coming back for more!
I have to admit that I'm relatively new to the whole idea of online comics. It has only been during the last 12 months or so that I have really started reading such comics. Part of the reason why is because I have always been told by so called "experts" that "online comics just aren't as good as the ones you can hold in your hands." Well, I'm happy to say that Gun Street Girl blasts that ridiculous myth to bits!
Gun Street Girl is the creation of Barbara Lien-Cooper. Lien-Cooper is a founding member of the website Sequential Tart.Com. Lien-Cooper has also been referred to by writer Mark Millar - yes, THAT Mark Millar - as "one of the three most promising new talents in the next wave of comics writing." After reading Gun Street Girl, you can see that Millar knows what he is talking about.
Gun Street Girl tells the story of Liz Pendragon. Liz is a young, tough, American woman in a magical London of the early 1990's. Liz just happens to be gay, but that is never the focus of the comic. While working as a stripper - and not a very good one - Liz meets up with Eddie Caution, a magician who's seen better days. Eddie sees something in Liz, and the two are soon off on a set of adventures not seen in the everyday comic book.
Liz is clearly the star of this comic book. She is a tough as nails, take-no-crap-from-anyone girl! And, God have mercy on anyone who messes with Liz's girlfriend! Liz has no magical or super powers, aside from her toughness and the ability to make the reader want to know more about her, but her new partner is a magician. There's just one problem. Eddie is sometimes lucky if he can conjure up a cup of coffee, much less a magical spell! Together, Liz and Eddie aren't out to save the world - just their own butts and maybe get by until they get paid!
One of the things that I enjoyed most about reading Gun Street Girl - besides the kick-butt action - was how Lien-Cooper didn't waste a lot of time laying out the origin of Liz or Eddie. Gun Street Girl begins with a bang and never really slows down! New readers will be hooked within the first few pages of "Origin." The other thing that I really enjoyed was the surprising twist in "Canterbury" involving Liz's girlfriend. It was this issue that proved to me that Millar was right on the money about Lien-Cooper!
Lien-Cooper's excellent, well paced storytelling is complimented by the art of Ryan Howe. Howe illustrates an incredible comic that could go toe to toe with anything that you might find on the shelves today. However, Howe's work stands out from the masses. Howe's work doesn't have that assembly-lined, looks-like-everyone-else look to it. Howe has a distinctive style that gives this comic book an even more gritty feel.
It's hard to classify Gun Street Girl. Gun Street Girl is a smart, sexy, action-adventure comic with extremely believable and likable characters. At times Gun Street Girl feels like the movie "Get Carter." Then, especially with the story "Dreams Of Children," Gun Street Girl turns into an eerie horror flick. In fact, Gun Street Girl has so far read like a really good movie. Hollywood would be wise to check this one out! I think it is safe to say that you won't find anything else like Gun Street Girl - on the spinner racks or online. And that's what I look for in a comic book!
Gun Street Girl can be found online at Graphic Smash.com. The most recent page of Gun Street Girl is always free to view, however for the price of one comic book you can access the entire Gun Street Girl archives for a month and be off on a comic book adventure like no other! Gun Street Girl updates with a new page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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