Sinbuck
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Pencils: Tim & Joe Vigil Writing: Dave Barbour & Joe Vigil
Produced by Broken Halos and Rebel Studios

Review by Larry Stanley

Man, the team of Joe and Tim Vigil just seem to keep on knocking us out with Wild Western Horror. In the new series, "Sinbuck" the beautiful but deadly Anna Sinbuck is the only survivor of the original gang of seven. And returning to the hellish badlands of Gunfighters in Hell, she and her demonic six-guns are ready to kick a$$ and they are not taking names.
Sinbuck is the sequel to the original GIH, and it picks up near the end of the original series. Anna has discovered that her dead (again) partners are trapped in a mystic box called a "Soul Cage" and she intends to free them.
But, not only will this free them from the box it will also free them all from Hell itself. And this does not sit well with the 'Big Boss' himself, various ex-friends of Anna's, an old lover and countless plug-uglies and demons that stand in her way.
Fine. That is the story, but what about the way the book looks? And is the story any good? Is it worth shelling out your hard earned dollars on it instead of a good dirty video or a six-pack?
Here is what I want you to do. Pretend for a moment you are a "mad scientist". And you have found yourself in possession of the bodies of George Romero, Sergio Leone, Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento. Being the mad scientist that you are, you decide to create one being from the four corpses in front of you.
You wind up with a film-maker/director/writer who is Seven Feet Tall, ticked off possessed of one of the most creatively warped minds on Gods Bright Blue Earth.
And he is the guy who would make Sinbuck into a live action film. This puppy is good. The story is good, with just enough violence to keep you interested but not enough to make you squeamish about the next scene, but it still keeps you enticed enough that you want to find out what is going on.
The art is just one step short of fantastic. Sorry, but while the panels, paints and pencils here are stunning, I did see a couple of places where I (but, who am I but a no-talent reviewer, right?) think something different should have been used. For instance, one page has a middle panel showing a close up of the Gunfighter. For some reason, his mouth looked 'pouty'. And no, I don't know any other way to describe it. The lips were too full, and they simply didn't look right to me.
But, as I said before I can't draw a straight line so what do I know about art? And while I do know what I like, I didn't like a few different panels in the story. However, that is not enough to put me off the rest of the book.
As usual, Vigil and company have presented a story worthy of any of the great Spaghetti Western or Italian Horror creators of the classic 1960's and 1970's. It is a violent story, certainly not for children or the faint of heart.
Written with a tongue in cheek humor that would have fit right in with "The Man With No Name" and a violence that "Demons" would have admired.
Frankly, I can't wait for the rest of the story.