Week-In-Review: Batman #6 + Peter Panzerfaust #1 + The Activity #3 + Wasteland #34

Well folks, as promised, here is another round of comic reviews from this past weeks releases for your pleasure. Today we cut across 3 companies, 4 titles and just as many genres as we bring you part 2 of this weeks selection.

BATMAN #6

Story: Scott Snyder

Art: Greg Capullo

(Review By: Anupam Sarkar)

After the dreadful encounter with “The Darkness” #99, Batman #6 was the only medicine that could get me outta my depression.

The previous issue had ended with The Talon, who stabbed (the drugged) Batman with a blade through the midsection of his body. Issue 6 picks it up from right there.

In the first few pages, Talon beats the shit out of Bats (who proceeds to bleed like gallons of tomato ketchup leaking from a barrel) while The Court of Owls surround them.

The Court then decide that they are not done with The Dark Knight yet and want him to be hurt much more still.

The weakened Bats (who had been trapped in the labyrinth beneath Gotham City for 8 days) is pushed inside a room where he sees his great-grandpop Alan Wayne's photo, which motivates him to kick Talon's arse just by using words as weapon against Talon(a bit unusual, but effectively done). Then he performs a magnificent escape from the labyrinth.

Series in Review: The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn

Howdy wayfarers, welcome back to that dusty trail. Its been a while ain't it, since we rode the wide open prairies and desert?

Well its been many a glimmerin' moon since I told you tales of the wild, wild west – this I know – but after a good long while I've come across one worth tellin' and aim to share it right here and now. So gather all around the campfire, listen to the gentle and melancholy twang of the guitar in the background and the crickets while I spin the yarn of The Sixth Gun for all a'y'all.  

Written by the rising talent that is Cullen Bunn, this is a story of action, adventure and a touch of mystical horror told in suitable gritty old-west style. 

Truly one of the most stand-out series in the last year or so, this one takes much of the familiar and makes it feel so fresh, adding in aspects and details that are in ways most unique to itself and the blending of western and horror is so seamless at times that even when its in your face, its hard to separate them.
A true success story for series' publisher Oni Press.