REVIEW: Finger Guns #4 excels in small, interior moments

By Jacob Cordas — There came a moment in Finger Guns #4 when our two protagonists are in the kind of fight you only have in high school. They are returning from a field trip to an aquarium sitting separate on the bus and sending texts to argue. This text argument is done over one panel with no border and no backdrop color. You can’t even see our main characters. All you see is a school bus moving forward regardless of limitations or directions with text boxes surrounding it. It’s quiet and personal. It’s sad and lonely. It’s everything I remember about my high school experience pushed into one boundless panel. It’s all the best parts of this comic rolled into one little moment.

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ADVANCED REVIEW: Finger Guns #1 takes aim at the ‘pulse-throbbing temple of teenage misery and neglect’

By J. Paul Schiek — Adulting is hard. Bills, mortgages, insurance, mortgage insurance bills? But adulting also has a way of making one forget how hard it is to be a teenager. It’s a whole other framework of concerns, much of it centered around a rapidly expanding worldview, and the dissolution of that chrysalis of childhood illusions that diminishes with equal quickness. Then adulthood sweeps in like a giant chalkboard eraser and leaves just a faint pressure outline of all that poetry journal worthy heartache and pain and throws up a new equation, just as unsolvable as the last. 

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