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This Eisner Award-winning series continues its exploration of contemporary American noir through its ingenious gimmick: mysterious Agent Graves offers a gun and 100 untraceable bullets to those who are looking for vengeance. This outing starts in a seedy dive in the French Quarter of New Orleans, a city with dark underbelly to spare. A showdown is brewing between story regulars and one-time allies Graves and Wiley Time, a young man seeking his own, not necessarily firearm-related brand of vengeance. Things rapidly get ugly, and not a little confusing, when Wiley walks into the bar, looking for a way out of the ugly direction his life is headed. Before the story's over, much killing takes place, as a dark cabal that's been in the background since the series began attempts to keep tabs on who's shot whom. Risso's art is the perfect foil for Azzarello's dark, sexy story; sunshine is seen only as a reflection in a puddle of beer on the bar, and beauty is as fleeting as the jazz of an innocent trumpeter who exits the tale in a particularly poignant (and painful) way. Although the complicated back story makes this a hard book to jump into, the glorious, relentlessly dark mood will reward those who stick with it. (July) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
100 Bullets, Volume 8: The Hard Way
by Brian AzzarelloEditorial Reviews
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9781401204907
- Publisher:
- DC Comics
- Publication date:
- 07/01/2005
- Series:
- 100 Bullets Series , #8
- Edition description:
- REV
- Pages:
- 224
- Product dimensions:
- 6.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.46(d)
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