Spurred on by larger than life movie action heroes, gun toting vigilantes became all the rage in late 80's comic books. Peter Gillis mused one day what new twist he could possibly put on the clichéd futuristic vengeful cyborg, that the likes of Deathlok and RoboCop hadn't already covered? Well, imagine if the aforementioned was carrying his daughter's disembodied brain on his back, as his literal tailgunner? And to keep her still conscious brain from going insane, Cyborg daddy constructs an elaborate fantasy world for her consciousness to inhabit? Yep, that's a very PBG spin alright. Gillis originally mooted Tailgunner Jo (named after Joe McCarthy's war nickname) for the short lived Hot Comics. However, Mike Gold had been leading an exodus from the cash strapped First Comics to DC, and Peter Gillis was on his recruitment radar. Gillis offered Gold this sci-fi maxi-series, which ended up assigned to veteran DC editor Barbara Randall/Kesel, who was keen, despite ex...
Being a reasonably chronological retrospective re-read of writer Peter B. Gillis' published comic books.