Review: Finger Guns #1 has Powers in The Hands

Writer: Justin Richards / Artist: Val Halvorson / Vault Comics The finger gun is an instantly recognizable gesture and one that has been incorporated into pop culture repeatedly. Spike from Cowboy Bebop, Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho, Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs, and my personal favorite example: the prolonged action sequence in Tales of the Borderlands – Episode 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26y9H2ZLf0w It is something that is capable of being both childish and threatening depending on the demeanor of the one making the gesture. It’s not quite innocuous, but it’s not quite devious to point at someone and fire imaginary ammunition; however, the latest comic from Vault introduces a very simple idea: what if something did happen if you pulled the mental trigger?

Finger Guns is the dual tale of Wes and Sadie, two seemingly normal high school students who also happen to possess the strange power to change people’s emotions by pointing and firing their fingers at them. Richards’s starts the story through the perspective of Wes, who by all metrics is a frustrated teen picked on by his peers and let to his own devices by his dad. When he sees another kid with a less than ideal, he takes aim only to find that he has amplified the anger of the father immensely, and then begins to abuse the hell out of said power to incite rage. But before long, he also runs into his counterpart Sadie whose finger guns seems to calm people down and thus the story truly begins. This type of magical…