Steven Grant (”Punisher: Circle of Blood”) creates a triple-crossing crime heist thriller in “Two Guns,” from Boom! Studios. The five-issue miniseries started its life as a spec script by Grant, and it has a motion picture feel.
Bobby and Marcus are two small-time crooks who decide to knock over a bank that’s laundering mob money. Only it turns out, it’s not mob money, it’s CIA money. And Bobby and Marcus aren’t small-time crooks, they’re undercover agents, each for a different agency, neither communicating with the other.
And by knocking over the bank, Bobby and Marcus have gotten themselves into a firestorm, and don’t know who they can trust — including each other.
Bobby’s a con artist — think Sawyer from “Lost” — who happens to work for a government agency. Marcus is more of a straight arrow who nevertheless gets caught up in a situation where the rules fall by the wayside very quickly.
The artist, Mat Santolouco, brings a light touch to the script, which, despite the violence, at times has a comedic tone, along the lines of an “Ocean’s 11.”
Definitely worth checking out for fans of things like “Last of the Independents,” “The Bank Job,” and crime/heist films and comics in general.
– Matt Price