Opening with another short, Rally’s gotten a gig as a firearms instructor at another shooting range and proceeds to school a group of people who have a very Hollywood-based view of handling firearms, explicitly copying Keanu Reeve’s gun-fu in The Matrix and the various antics found in John Woo movies. Of course, this gets her fired as the owners want their customers to waste ammo (and have to spend more), c’est la vie. It was completely extraneous, but there’s still a nice chunk of practical firearms knowledge to be found within, the movie references were amusing, and it was nicely presented.

Starting off a fresh chunk of storyline, Rally goes shopping for a new car, after sacrificing her beloved GT500 in volume 2, and while it isn’t quite what she’s looking for, she quickly comes to appreciate it. Doing so also gives her a new connection that helps get her into an illegal street race where Bean and Percy (the crazy detective from Detroit, in equally crazy disguise) are out for each other’s blood. Mostly it seems to be an excuse for Sonoda to pour out some love for classic muscle cars (and the odd choice of a pimped out Chevy Astro van o_O), but it also gives him an excuse to use Riff Raff (another transporter from the original run) again.

Crazy driving, insane Bean skills, deal making, and another bit of a standoff ensue, leaving things at another stopping point without a cliffhanger. This is good because the next volume isn’t out for months yet and I’d hate to be stuck waiting in the middle of a sequence. So that wraps up Gunsmith Cats: Burst for now, with the fourth volume solicited for mid-September, and the finale sometime after that. Hopefully we can get a new edition of Riding Bean as well, both because I don’t think I’ve ever read it, and because it would be nice to be able to match it up with the style used on Burst and the Omnibuses. It also reminds me that I need to pick up the OVAs, as the Gunsmith Cats one was really good and I never saw the Riding Bean adaptation either.