Product Description

Agent Graves offers his 'clients' the opportunity of a lifetime: an attache case containing the proof, the gun and the carte blanche immunity to exact revenge on the person who's done them irrevocable wrong. As his mysterious work continues, the repercussions continue to escalate. Dizzy Cordova wants answers, her revenge killing is weighing heavily on her conscience. Her investigations reveal that Graves has been a busy man, his influence stretching beyond the US to Europe and South America. The answers are out there, but Dizzy may not like what she finds! Warning: Adults only! 100 Bullets has also received a nomination for a 2003 Eisner Award.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103229 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Brian Azzarello is a relative newcomer to the comics scene, but his work on 100 Bullets and Jonny Double has catapulted him to the forefront of the ranks of contemporary comics writers.

Customer Reviews

Very, very cool
100 BULLETS: FIRST SHOT, LAST CALL was cool and SPLIT SECOND CHANCE is just as good! In the first half we get a few more of Agent Graves' proposals and then in the second half things start coming together! Some questions get answered as to who Graves is, who he works for, why he has power and what his intentions are. Well, they aren't fully answered, but as characters like Dizzy come back into the story we start to get the sense of a bigger picture and things start to come together a bit.

This book is a lot more complicated than FIRST SHOT, LAST CALL as we see start seeing how the wheels within wheels work, and the storyline throws up more surprises - and not just surprises that have a bearing on that particular storyline, but the whole series too. Its woven with craft and Azzarello shows that he is as adept at writing gripping individual stories, as he is at writing larger and more intricate ones.
The stories are all full of very colourful, very human and highly believable characters and its what makes the books so enjoyable. The plot is excellent, but we can also relate to these characters - we can understand their pain, plight and temptation, and thats what makes it so engaging.

The art is creative, evocative and captures the characters' personalities well. It also gives a wonderful gangster-noir atmosphere to the book and drives the story along very smoothly. If you like crime, noir or gangster stories then you should like this; don't even bother watching any of the movies or tv programs out there...

...just pick up your attaché of 100 BULLETS.

Comic book mastery
This is the second collection of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's crime/conspiracy comic. This takes a different slant from the first collection, as the narrative follows the protoganist Agent Graves rather than the people who he provides with the one hundred untracable bullets.

The artwork is outstanding in my opinion, although it may be too cartoony for some tastes. It perfectly complements the tightly scripted stories. 100 Bullets has plausible dialogue and a convoluted overall plot, which is slowly being unfolded.

There are some absolutely outstanding one-off stories in this collection, as well as the ongoing Graves main story, for example 'Heartbreak Sunny Side Up', which is one of the best self-contained stories I have ever read.

Can't wait for the next collection!