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Gun Honey: Collision Course #1-4
Gun Honey #3: Collision Course
Joanna Tan returns for a new heart-racing series!
After nearly a year in hiding from government agents looking to kill her, Gun Honey - Joanna Tan - launches a plan to turn the tables that will take her from the jungles of Borneo to the streets of Yokohama and sands of the Gobi Desert. But when four armed groups converge on one secret location, will anyone survive the explosive collision?
After nearly a year in hiding from government agents looking to kill her, Gun Honey - Joanna Tan - launches a plan to turn the tables that will take her from the jungles of Borneo to the streets of Yokohama and sands of the Gobi Desert. But when four armed groups converge on one secret location, will anyone survive the explosive collision?
112 pages, Paperback
Published January 14, 2025
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Charles Ardai
76 books110 followersCharles Ardai is a founder of Hard Case Crime, a pulp crime novel publisher, as well as an editor and author. In 1991 he received the Pearlman Prize for his fiction. He also writes under the pen name Richard Aleas.
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March 18, 2025
Perhaps the real Gun Honey was the topless Mongolian concubines taught Kung Fu by a blind itinerant nun we met along the way?
Joanna Tan, always packing the heat.
Joking aside, if you like international intrigue, violence, and lots of boobs and dongs this is the book you need to be reading right now.
Joanna Tan, always packing the heat.
Joking aside, if you like international intrigue, violence, and lots of boobs and dongs this is the book you need to be reading right now.
December 22, 2024
The third, and final (for now at least) collection of Gun Honey happens to be the weakest of the trilogy.
The story just doesn’t feel as strong this time around and it’s far more confusing of a plot, this time involving a Japanese gang, classified and potentially damning top secret information, and a trip to the Paris Olympics that wraps things all together in a way that doesn’t make much sense.
Maybe part of that story is because there’s an entire spinoff series that comes before the story here, but regardless, I feel like for this final entry into the series, story took a bit of a backseat in place of upping the amount of time JoAnna (and other characters) appear naked. Multiple times an issue we get treated to Joanna’s boobs and butt, and usually it’s really just for the hell of it because this is 100% an indie comic that doesn’t have any kind of moral code to follow. It’s not a bad thing, but the contemporary and titillating aspect of nudity in a comic quickly fades after countless nude exploits.
Either way, the Gun Honey series was a nice diversion from typical comic book fare. Im pretty sure I’ll find myself reading the Heat Seeker spinoffs sooner, rather than later, and coming back to the main storyline once more of them are published.
The story just doesn’t feel as strong this time around and it’s far more confusing of a plot, this time involving a Japanese gang, classified and potentially damning top secret information, and a trip to the Paris Olympics that wraps things all together in a way that doesn’t make much sense.
Maybe part of that story is because there’s an entire spinoff series that comes before the story here, but regardless, I feel like for this final entry into the series, story took a bit of a backseat in place of upping the amount of time JoAnna (and other characters) appear naked. Multiple times an issue we get treated to Joanna’s boobs and butt, and usually it’s really just for the hell of it because this is 100% an indie comic that doesn’t have any kind of moral code to follow. It’s not a bad thing, but the contemporary and titillating aspect of nudity in a comic quickly fades after countless nude exploits.
Either way, the Gun Honey series was a nice diversion from typical comic book fare. Im pretty sure I’ll find myself reading the Heat Seeker spinoffs sooner, rather than later, and coming back to the main storyline once more of them are published.
May 16, 2024
Great story, illustrations, and panel layouts! This is definitely a story I am going to follow. However, it seems like these character's stories start back a bit before this title. So, I have to backtrack a little bit.
February 27, 2025
(Warning: This graphic novel has nudity within)
Gun Honey: Collision Course is the 3rd volume of the Gun Honey, e.g. Joanna Tan, hard case crime, pulp graphic novel series. Just like the others, it's an action - packed thrill ride, a sexy, brightly drawn, entertaining story.
After the last two novels, Joanna and her partner Brook Barrow have been hiding out in the jungles of Borneo. As Joanna tells Brook, they need to stay hidden for a year so their enemies will think they are dead. Joanna has a safety device, a cache of incrimination information hidden away in a secretive vault in Mongolia.
Of course things happen and Joanna and Brook head off on a series of adventures, trying to stop government agents from killing them, destroying their allies, ending up in Paris where there is a plot to kill a senior US government official, who is attending the Paris Olympics.
Lots going on, some doesn't sense. I find it somewhat difficult at times to ascertain who is who especially with the plethora of bald, white, muscular men all fighting it out. But hey! It's pulp fiction, it's action and more action. It's nice to just sink yourself into the story, watch the action (did I say action?) and everything else. Just fun and games. I'm looking forward to Joanna next adventures. (3.0 stars)
Gun Honey: Collision Course is the 3rd volume of the Gun Honey, e.g. Joanna Tan, hard case crime, pulp graphic novel series. Just like the others, it's an action - packed thrill ride, a sexy, brightly drawn, entertaining story.
After the last two novels, Joanna and her partner Brook Barrow have been hiding out in the jungles of Borneo. As Joanna tells Brook, they need to stay hidden for a year so their enemies will think they are dead. Joanna has a safety device, a cache of incrimination information hidden away in a secretive vault in Mongolia.
Of course things happen and Joanna and Brook head off on a series of adventures, trying to stop government agents from killing them, destroying their allies, ending up in Paris where there is a plot to kill a senior US government official, who is attending the Paris Olympics.
Lots going on, some doesn't sense. I find it somewhat difficult at times to ascertain who is who especially with the plethora of bald, white, muscular men all fighting it out. But hey! It's pulp fiction, it's action and more action. It's nice to just sink yourself into the story, watch the action (did I say action?) and everything else. Just fun and games. I'm looking forward to Joanna next adventures. (3.0 stars)
September 18, 2025
Following on the precedent set by the previous three books in this series, "Gun Honey: Collision Course" is a fast paced and engaging adventure with heavy pulp and noir elements. This book does not pull any punches and there is intense violence and nudity in nearly every panel.
Whereas previous books reveled in doing everything and then some that comics were previously prohibited from doing, this book has lost much of the momentum and over the top looniness that was evident in earlier works.
Although, very few readers will be drawn to this sort of fiction based on plot strength and comprehensibility it is worth noting that both are diminished in this book. Additionally, the cleavage to carnage ratio has slipped even further in the favor of the latter in this book. This does not really detract from the book but some readers may find a book that seems to be populated by a troupe of Carol Doda impersonators a bit taste specific. As with all the past books, do not even think about reading this at work !
Whereas previous books reveled in doing everything and then some that comics were previously prohibited from doing, this book has lost much of the momentum and over the top looniness that was evident in earlier works.
Although, very few readers will be drawn to this sort of fiction based on plot strength and comprehensibility it is worth noting that both are diminished in this book. Additionally, the cleavage to carnage ratio has slipped even further in the favor of the latter in this book. This does not really detract from the book but some readers may find a book that seems to be populated by a troupe of Carol Doda impersonators a bit taste specific. As with all the past books, do not even think about reading this at work !
February 24, 2025
Gun Honey continues to be one of the most fun comics being published, and this third volume is no exception. I wish that we’d gotten more story as it felt like the end was rushed only by its shorter page length. Nevertheless, it was an absolutely great ride.
June 29, 2025
"Collision Course" is the third adventure starring Joanna Tan, AKA Gun Honey, a mercenary arms dealer who is able to smuggle weapons into any location. It's more admirable when you realize how little clothes she wears in her missions, leaving one to really wonder how those guns are getting where they need to go.
This volume takes place after the recent spin-off title, Heat Seeker, where Joanna is aided by Dahlia Racers to fake her death and go into hiding with burned federal agent Brook Barrow. Picking up from their small cameo in Heat Seeker, the pair are in hiding in Borneo. Joanna's strategy to stay ahead of the corrupt US feds looking for them is to force them into action, and this takes shape when the CIA start searching for the legendary vault of Hiroshi Yamato, a peddler of secrets from every clandestine group around the world. If Brook isn't heard from in a year, the file containing Brook's knowledge on the dirty elements of the CIA go live. A race to find this vault ensues, with Joanna and Brook taking across Asia in search of this hidden vault.
The crime story element continues to be solid, albeit a little eye-rolling at times due to the excess exploitation elements. Joanna doesn't go a single issue without baring her ample assets, something that I suppose adds the specific charm to this series. It's something you get used to when we're four volumes into this, but I still find it laughable nonetheless. Ardai's script is sharp enough to make these compelling crime dramas, and Ang Hor Kheng's artwork does the action, drama and of course, nudity, really well. I'm never going to love this series, but I can't deny I enjoy reading the continuing adventures of Gun Honey.
This volume takes place after the recent spin-off title, Heat Seeker, where Joanna is aided by Dahlia Racers to fake her death and go into hiding with burned federal agent Brook Barrow. Picking up from their small cameo in Heat Seeker, the pair are in hiding in Borneo. Joanna's strategy to stay ahead of the corrupt US feds looking for them is to force them into action, and this takes shape when the CIA start searching for the legendary vault of Hiroshi Yamato, a peddler of secrets from every clandestine group around the world. If Brook isn't heard from in a year, the file containing Brook's knowledge on the dirty elements of the CIA go live. A race to find this vault ensues, with Joanna and Brook taking across Asia in search of this hidden vault.
The crime story element continues to be solid, albeit a little eye-rolling at times due to the excess exploitation elements. Joanna doesn't go a single issue without baring her ample assets, something that I suppose adds the specific charm to this series. It's something you get used to when we're four volumes into this, but I still find it laughable nonetheless. Ardai's script is sharp enough to make these compelling crime dramas, and Ang Hor Kheng's artwork does the action, drama and of course, nudity, really well. I'm never going to love this series, but I can't deny I enjoy reading the continuing adventures of Gun Honey.
January 13, 2025
"Get your checkbook ready. You just hired the best."
Joanna Tan and Brook Barrow have been living incognito in Borneo for a year. Their enemies think they are dead, thanks to Dahlia Racers' subterfuges in Heat Seeker Vol. 1, but hiding is boring. They want their lives back. So, Joanna hatches a plan to lure Kruger to Shanghai where she can kill him…
Of course, it all goes sideways real fast… Soon Kruger knows she is still alive, and he sets a pair of Japanese mobsters on her trail…
The third volume of the Gun Honey series proper (the fourth if you count the spin-off) amps up the silliness factor. Joanna's plan does not make sense. If she can solve her problems just by killing Kruger, why did she go into hiding at all? Why lure him to China? She knows where he goes to work every day… She should have taken him out a long time ago, problem solved!
The final set piece, which moves the action to Olympic Village in Paris during the summer 2024 games, is particularly problematic. Barrow is drugged and brainwashed into fighting against Joanna in what must be the most anticlimactic gunfight ever conceived…
There are several pop culture gags in this arc. Brook crawls through an air duct and ruminates how much easier this looked in Die Hard. A harem of topless women get into a karate fight in the desert with a bunch of gunmen. Why are they topless? Who knows? Why not? The whole sequence is probably an homage to the Jaipur fight scene in Octopussy.
The art by Ang Hor Kheng is the only bright spot in this mess of a story. It is clean, colorful, and fast paced.
1 star.
Joanna Tan and Brook Barrow have been living incognito in Borneo for a year. Their enemies think they are dead, thanks to Dahlia Racers' subterfuges in Heat Seeker Vol. 1, but hiding is boring. They want their lives back. So, Joanna hatches a plan to lure Kruger to Shanghai where she can kill him…
Of course, it all goes sideways real fast… Soon Kruger knows she is still alive, and he sets a pair of Japanese mobsters on her trail…
The third volume of the Gun Honey series proper (the fourth if you count the spin-off) amps up the silliness factor. Joanna's plan does not make sense. If she can solve her problems just by killing Kruger, why did she go into hiding at all? Why lure him to China? She knows where he goes to work every day… She should have taken him out a long time ago, problem solved!
The final set piece, which moves the action to Olympic Village in Paris during the summer 2024 games, is particularly problematic. Barrow is drugged and brainwashed into fighting against Joanna in what must be the most anticlimactic gunfight ever conceived…
There are several pop culture gags in this arc. Brook crawls through an air duct and ruminates how much easier this looked in Die Hard. A harem of topless women get into a karate fight in the desert with a bunch of gunmen. Why are they topless? Who knows? Why not? The whole sequence is probably an homage to the Jaipur fight scene in Octopussy.
The art by Ang Hor Kheng is the only bright spot in this mess of a story. It is clean, colorful, and fast paced.
1 star.
August 14, 2024
The writing's not as tight in this volume and somehow Ardai comes up with even more ridiculous ways to have the women naked. Still it's a fun series. This one just doesn't always connect together properly. It is timely though, tying into the 2024 Olympics that just ended.
January 15, 2025
Not as engaging as the first two volumes. The artwork doesn't seem as sharp either.
January 21, 2025
Very hard to follow this story. Great art work,terrible writing.
February 24, 2025
Weakest entry in the series so far, with a schizophrenic plot shift three quarters through.
April 21, 2025
Such a quick, pulpy lunchtime read :)
July 3, 2025
Enjoyed this, makes for a good series so far. I am curious to see where it goes from here if there is more to come from it. I do find myself preferring the Heat Seeker spin off a tad more.
November 18, 2025
OK, but even with the world travel aspect - getting a little tired.
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