100 Bullets may have started 10 years ago as a crime story with an interesting hook (what would you do if you were given a gun and 100 bullets, all untraceable?) but it became something huge, grand and complicated in the end. But it always remained true to its themes: who has the power, how [...]
Tags: 100 Bullets, Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso
Not much time to actually pontificate on anything but let’s throw out some good links. That’s always good for something, isn’t it? Chicago as seen in 100 BULLETS: (link found via Jason at Phoning It In) Chicago writer Brian Azzarello takes the Tribune on a tour of Chicago locations that have appeared in his Vertigo [...]
Tags: Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke, Modern Masters, Richard Stark's Parker
What happens when the Joker stops being crazy and starts being angry? About halfway through Joker, Harvey Dent explains to Jonny Frost, the Joker’s newest acolyte/henchman, just exactly what Jonny’s future is. Harvey explains clearly to Jonny how little the Joker values human life and what he does to his supposed “friends” and “allies.” Harvey [...]
Tags: Batman, Brian Azzarello, Joker, Lee Bermejo
In my review for 100 Bullets V12: Dirty, I linked to a character map (spoilers!) showing how all of the characters related to one another. Thanks to the way that Blogger handles images, it’s not clear where that roadmap came from. My pal and co-worker Matthew Brady first put it together in 2007 and then [...]
Tags: 100 Bullets, Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso
When the calm before the storm contains a family systematically killed, an unrepentant murderer getting a last minute reprieve from death, a baby cut out of its mothers womb and the recruitment of a trained killer, can you really have any hope of surviving the oncoming storm? Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso have spent the [...]
Tags: 100 Bullets, Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso