Gun Honey Doubles Down #0 Review
Writer: Charles Ardai
Penciller: Ace Continuado
Inker: Juan Castro
Colorist: Asifur Rahman
Letterer: David Leach
Publisher: Titan Comics
Price: $0.00 (Free Comic Book Day issue)
Release Date: May 2, 2026
While battling to preserve the secrets in the Yamato Vault, Joanna Tan discovered a plot to assassinate Alexis Stern, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence. Separated from Brook Barrow, Joanna traveled to Paris to foil the nefarious agents who had cost Brook his career. As representatives of all the nations on Earth converge to determine the world’s top athletes, Joanna battles U.S. Intelligence agents and spies from other countries to prevent the assassination.
Afterward, Joanna learns that a spy is returning to Russia. Intel suggests the country's president may debrief him. If Joanna can sneak a gun into the meeting room, there's a big payday in her future. Can Joanna Tan break into the Kremlin? And if so, who will help her accomplish the impossible? Let's leap into Gun Honey Doubles Down #0 and see!
Story
When she travels to Russia to meet an old friend, Joanna Tan gets a rough welcome. As Olga points a gun at her face, Joanna realizes that, despite all her experience and skills, she can still die. It’s a sobering thought, and a moment when time stops. Then, Olga relents and invites her inside. But when Joanna asks about her father, Olga sags. Her father has been an empty shell since his son's death. And Olga seems shattered by the double loss of her brother and her father's withdrawal.
This moment reminds Joanna why she agreed to take the case. The huge payday is a part of it. Likewise, the challenge of breaking into the Kremlin also excited her. But seeing a repressive dictator go down might also bring justice to Olga, her father, and all the other people President Vulapin has hurt in Gun Honey Doubles Down #0.
Charles Ardai’s story follows Joanna Tan as she prepares for her mission. It also flashes back to those who helped her before she left Paris for Moscow. As Joanna embarks on her Mission Impossible, she courts danger and employs the skills Dahlia Racers has taught her. But once Joanna enters the Kremlin, she will be alone without a friend to aid her in Gun Honey Doubles Down #0.
Art
As Joanna meets death in a hallway, she clutches a red toolbox. When purple-haired Olga, dressed in a pink night robe, lets her in, she sets her gun down before a framed photo. Ace Continuado and Juan Castro replay the key events that brought Joanna to Russia across two pages. Then, Joanna picks up the handgun and returns it to Olga’s hand.
Asifur Rahman surrounds Olga in browns, tans, and muted green. A memory of more vibrant green, yellow, and blue, when Joanna meets with a woman clothed in green, presages Joanna's preparation in Olga's apartment. Then, adorned with green and yellow, Joanna walks past an iconic landmark beneath a bright blue sky. As she heads toward a red wall, Joanna Tan carries her red toolbox toward the rifle-toting soldiers guarding metal doors.
David Leach fires black uppercase letters into white dialogue balloons. Joanna’s offscreen dialogue fills light blue boxes, while Olga’s inhabits lavender boxes. But as Joanna strives to stay beneath the radar, gunfire, alarms, and explosions follow in Gun Honey Doubles Down #0. After the twelve-page story, six pages of black-and-white art with colored narrative boxes provide a glimpse of the upcoming series. Thanks to Titan Comics, Free Comic Book Day, and Yesteryear Comics for providing a review copy.
Final Thoughts
After her idyll in Borneo, fighting to safeguard the secrets in the Yamato Vault, and attempting to foil a plot hatched inside the U.S. Intelligence community, Joanna Tan heads to Russia. She may be striking a blow for freedom. But that doesn't mean Joanna Tan can’t have fun as she ventures into the tightly controlled Kremlin in Gun Honey Doubles Down #0.
Rating 9.6/10
For what happened last time, see my review of Gun Honey Collision Course TP.
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