Riding Shotgun, Volume 1

Riding Shotgun #1

by Nate Bowden, Tracy Yardley (Illustrator)

Doyle and Abby are sloppy assassins, but they get the job done. However, that's not good enough for an assassins guild that is getting more pressure from the public to keep assassinations clean, and to revoke the licenses of those who can't. This just means that Doyle and Abby have to take on a big hit to pay the fines. But when the hit ends up being one of Doyle's ex-girlfriends, Abby gets jealous.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2006

Reviews

[Robert Hultman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, not great, but fun and interesting enough with some unexpected surprises. My biggest complaint might be how rushed much of the story is. Three stars feels a little harsh because there is something cool here, but I can’t rate based on potential, and there are just too many little things missing.

[Michaela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like Abby. Final answer.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

I shouldn't have liked Nathaniel Bowden & Tracy Yardley's Riding Shotgun vol. 1 (TokyoPop, $9.99) for it's senseless, over-the-top violence, but it was gleeful and charming enough to win me over in its nihilism. Set in an alternate world where assassination is legal and regulated, Doyle Harrington and his partner Abby are up-and-coming assassins looking to make the jump to the big leagues. But their plans go awry when one of their targets turns out to be Doyle's old high school girlfriend. Yardley's art is appropriately energetic. The car chase sequence that runs for about 17 pages at three-quarters of the way through is one of the best I've seen represented in comics. Riding Shotgun doesn't quite measure up to Bambi and Her Pink Gun in the ranks of violent nihilistic comics, but it's a good read for fans of that sort of stuff and I'll be looking forward to the next volume.

[Lord · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable OEL manga from a world where assassinations are legal. The story is a bit over the top (kidna Natural Born Killers style) but the art is good and overall impression from the first volume is very good.

[Pablo Rodriguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just my luck, first manga volume I ever buy in my life, they cancel it…

[Luis Saez De Arribasplata]

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