Gobbledygeek episode 465, “FCF: Six-Gun Gorilla,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts.

Sometimes a gorilla is just a gorilla. Sometimes, though, that gorilla–righteously bearing arms though he may be–is a gateway to a story about the power and fluidity of narrative. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo go ape for Si Spurrier and Jeff Stokely’s Six-Gun Gorilla, a sci-fi Western published by BOOM! Studios in 2013. The boys discuss Stokely’s glorious, hyper-exaggerated art; how the book’s entertainment conglomerate dystopia feels like a logical extension of our present; the way Spurrier weaves various pulp genres throughout his story; and more. Plus, Paul got sick in Gatlinburg again and Arlo admits he was wrong about Dune.

NEXT: Gobbledygeek will return.

BREAKDOWN

• 00:00:55  –  Intro / Banter
• 00:21:30  –  Six-Gun Gorilla
• 01:25:50  –  Outro / Next

LINKS

• “Six-Gun Gorilla: The Complete (Original) Saga”
• “Spurrier Aims for Future Western Weirdness With ‘Six-Gun Gorilla’” by Ryan Ingram, CBR
• “Simon Spurrier & Jeff Stokely’s ‘Six-Gun Gorilla’ Is Insane” by Andy Khouri, Comics Alliance
• “SIX-GUN GORILLA: The Awesome Starts Here” by Simon Spurrier
• “Read the lost adventures of Six-Gun Gorilla, the greatest cowboy gorilla in fiction” by Cyriaque Lamar, Gizmodo

MUSIC

• “Clint Eastwood” by Gorillaz, Gorillaz (2001)
• “Wayfaring Stranger” by Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man (2000)

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