Winter Wolves

Winter Wolves is the fifth arc of The Sixth Gun ongoing series. It ran for six issues.

Publishing History
The road trip aspect of this arc with Kirby Hale, Gord Cantrell, and Asher Cobb, was something Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt loved so much, they wished they could've done several more issues of it. They consider it quintessential Sixth Gun.

Hurtt particularly wanted a scene with the three characters singing around a campfire, a tribute to the scene in Rio Bravo when Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson break into song. Bunn also would've liked a scene like this, but admits that if he had had to write a song, it would have been terrible.

For the final sequence with Becky using the Sixth Gun to strike out at Missy Hume, Bunn wrote it as Becky’s “Dark Phoenix” moment, showing how ruthless Becky could be. It also showed the Sixth Gun was much more powerful than readers had previously been shown.