Here's the backstory behind this series: Warren Ellis was dared by a friend to write a superhero book, a zombie book, and there was one other thing which I can't recall atm. He tackled the zombie book with Black Gas. Black Summer is his superhero book. The fact that these are all brand new characters makes this a pretty amazing plot. The character themselves are fantastic in design. I've tried to detail them as much as possible in their entries but it's hard since I have to wait for each issue to come out and get more info on them.

Ellis is a very politically-minded person and whether or not you agree or disagree is irrelevant because it's about how good his writing is. Plus, bear in mind, no matter what, it's still fiction.

The Seven Guns teammates are interesting individuals and worth the time to get to know. In this issue we finally get real introductions to the last of the living members: Kathryn Artemis, Dominic, and (Angela) Angel One. My only criticism on the designs is is that Kathryn's outfit is a 99% clone of the Power Rangers; it's good but it just isn't an original look. However, saving her look is the fan-freakin-tastic transformation scene which I'm uploading panels of into her gallery. (Wow, that was some pretty bad grammar but you should get my drift.) Because I love the looks of the characters so much, I did a lot of scans; unfortunately the voice bubbles are too close to the characters to try and avoid them so I just left them in. You can see the outfits and gadgets from almost every angle so just ignore the voice bubbles. ;)

John Horus, the now "anti-hero" is still at large. The remaining Guns are trying to get their message across that they are not with him in his plans which involved killing the President and Cabinet; but when the Armed Forces fire first, Kathryn defends herself and obliterates a platoon in the middle of the city block. We're presented with the flashback of Angela's post-surgery for her gun enhancements and levitation implants. She's got these gruesome stitches up the length of both legs. It's not clear on the sequence of which teammates got their enhancements first. I say this because Tom Noir is in the flashback with Angela and he's still reluctant and skeptical but we know that he's probably going to be the one that has to take John Horus down even with missing one leg and abuse his body for so long.

Like the other issues, it's gorey and violent and has it's share of F-bombs so if that's not your bag, just consider this fair warning. The symbolically peaceful doves in the panels where the team is trying is escape troops and helicopters, just shows how well-thought the artistic representation for this book is.