She’s developed her skills over years, starting with her father, to become the world’s most effective gun runner, but her personality projects relaxed confidence that isn’t pretentious or condescending.

I found the plot and the twists to be highly predictable and there was nil complexity in the characterization or backstory. Eventually the story gets more complicated involving a relative but this was when it nearly went off rails for me. Using her extraordinary beauty and covert ops training, her job is to smuggle a single weapon--usually a gun--into impossible locations, such as a billionaire's yacht or a maximum security prison. A lot of that has to do with the overall aesthetic of the comic, with Ang Hor Keng’s art and designs having an almost timeless feel to them but also being illustratively reminiscent of old school movie posters and pulp dime novel covers. Written by Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai, illustrated by Ang Hor Kheng, colored by Asifur Rahman and lettered by David Leach, Gun Honey is violent tale of redemption, bullets, revenge and love, with again a lot of violence.They mostly want to give her a job (reminds me of Normandy Gold that also had a federal agency that wanted to recruit the main character, another strong woman) while shaming her about the results of her providing guns. Plus it was great to find out after reading the blurb in the back of this book that this series will be continuing.

When you’re the best in the world with a very specific set of skills, it’s logical that even governments would want you on their side. But while I had hopes for this book in terms of not being from the male gaze, that hope died just as quickly as the first casualty in this comic.

Through all this we're introduced to Joanna's past, and (perhaps) to the events which still motivate her now. Gun Honey plants guns in impossible to smuggle places which then allows an assassin or murder access to a gun in said impossible place. With Gun Honey I think you need to be open to pulp fiction/noir storytelling to truly appreciate how great and fun this first issue is. My thanks to both NetGalley and the publishers Titan Books- Hard Case Crime for an advanced copy of this graphic novel thriller. Considering this is pulp fiction, it delivered exactly what I was expecting - story worthy of good old action movies.

Notwithstanding the blatant no-top-on-the-busty-femme-fatale rule that was clearly achieved from the beginning until the very end, never really explaining why she liked to showcase her frontal assets so much too, the revenge thriller isn’t unfortunately as voluptuous as the main character, quickly rushing to a resolution that felt unwarranted. She'll get you the weapon you need, when you need it, where you need it -- no matter how impossible. Created by the award-winning Hard Case Crime co-founder Charles Ardai and drawn by breakout artist Ang Hor Kheng, GUN HONEY is a fast, sexy thrill ride for lovers of classic pulp and fearsome revenge thrillers. Ultimately Gun Honey plants the landing by the final pages and readers get what amounts to a twisted Jane Bond type story.The opening scene begins with a Greek gangster scanning the beachfront from his yacht, looking for lovely ladies to invite onboard. I don’t think I’ve ever had to use the term “male gaze” before in a book/comic review, but c’mon mannnn. As was the central premise here - when a law enforcement agency reaches out for help, it seems to be making an offer Joanna can't refuse.