Six-Gun Gorilla #6 - "Fill Your Hand" [series finale]

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Re-posting because I accidentally left out a few pages the first time. They were only the ones that actually explain what's going on. Oops...

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Listen: I love Westerns. Six-Gun Gorilla is the culmination of all my obsessive theorizing and cultural sampling: a love-letter to the most beautiful, most tragic, most self-fulfillingly-obsolete genre of them all. -- Si Spurrier


That’s where you’ll find an answer to the question a lot of people ask me: why did you have to set it in the future? Why couldn’t you set it in the real Old West? Answer: because new “Six-Gun Gorilla” is, abstractly, about old “Six-Gun Gorilla.” It’s about the idea of the West — about fictionalized reality in general, rather than about some clever, clever new version of it.

I can’t say much more than that without spoiling stuff. And I’m always reluctant to get into discussing the wanky metafiction stuff because it makes it sound like this is going to be some pompous overly-worthy book about How Clever The Writer Can Be. Which it isn’t at all. 6GG is about a dude who thinks he wants to die, but finds a new reason to live in the weirdest way imaginable. And it’s about a fucking enormous silverback highland gorilla blowing people’s heads off. The rest of it just gets dragged-along in his wake.

-- Si Spurrier

Comments

[tripodeca113]

Truly an epic for our time.