Product Description

An All-New Series In The Bloodsoaked Tradition Of Preacher! It's happened to all of us at one time or another. Somebody, somewhere, did something so bad, so wrong, you wanted to kill them...even if it were only for a split second. So here's the question: what would you do if you were given the opportunity and means to get away with it, scot-free? 100 Bullets follows what happens when people from all walks of life meet Agent Graves, a mysterious figure who 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. So, would you pull the trigger?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #275096 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 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

Awesome
I first saw this book in my local comics shop. I was interested in it, but I was skeptical, and didn't buy it. When I finally did get hold of a copy, I was enthralled. Amazing artwork, superb plotlines, and characters you can actually root for. One thing though, I found ithard to translate the street language used in the first story, but with a bit of thought, I got it sorted. The first story is a scorcher, with a neat little twist in the tale, and a cool climax. The second story is twice as good, with a violent yet toching plot, and leaves the reader with an ar of mystery at the end. If you read it, you'll find out what I mean. It also comes with a short story from Veryigo: Winter's Edge. As soon as I had finished it, I went out and got a copy of 100 Bullets 2, which was even better.

Black gender in your bookshelf.
Although maybe you can be on a first place dissapointed with the so perssonal work of Eduardo Risso, the team of this comic will surely change your mind. Brian Azzarello writes the script as if it was a movie, and Eduardo Risso draws the scenes with a very fluid style. The result is greatly joyful, with stories apparently unconnected but with a common nexus: who is Graves, and why is he doing what he does? Who are his enemies and who his allies?

This book compiles the first numbers of "100 Bullets" series. Award-winning of the Eisner prize, it's a black gender comic I personally encourage to try. Very, very recommended.

Give It A Chance!
After reading this collection of the first five issues of the DC / Vertigo comic 100 Bullets, you'd be forgiven for wondering what the fuss was all about. But give it a chance, it does get better!

100 Bullets is a crime / conspiracy comic. Like the Warren Ellis comic Planetary (which it has little else in common with), it presents a series of seemingly unconnected short stories and links them within a bigger picture without ever really explaining clearly what that picture is. Writer Brian Azzarello seems more than happy to take his time with this series and, as it's apparently set to run to 100 issues, I wouldn't expect the answers any time soon. Each issue so far seems to raise as many questions as it answers (I'm currently up to issue seventeen and I still don't know what's going on) and this may just annoy some people. To me, however, this is part of its appeal and what keeps me coming back for more.

The main problem with this particular collection, though, is that the first of the two stories contained here (a three-parter) is a little dragged out and predictable and may have worked better in just one or two parts. Still, it serves its purpose in that it introduces us to the excellent idea behind the series and its main reoccuring character: the mysterious Agent Graves, who turns up in the lives of people who've been wronged (in this case a female Latino ex-gang-member whose husband and son were murdered while she was in prison) and offers them a gun and 100 untraceable bullets with which they can exact revenge without fear of prosecution.

The second story here, about a once-successful chef whose life has been ruined by false allegations concerning questionable pictures found on his computer, is a lot better and the first to indicate that there's a lot more to this series than at first meets the eye. Although all of the stories in 100 Bullets so far work quite well on their own, it was actually only once it became clear that there was a much bigger picture that this series really came to life. Unfortunately, it's not until the very end of this book that you realize that there is something more here than a series of short crime stories but the ending should leave you wanting more and whet your appetite for the nine issues contained in the soon-to-be-published, much better second volume.

Oh, and did I mention that series artist Eduardo Risso is excellent?