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When an absolutely great series like 100 Bullets is approaching its finale (well, not exactly, it’s in its last quarter anyway) every single issue is an event you just can’t ignore. It started in August ’99 and keeps on pioneering in the depths of noir, crime story telling and realistic narrating, a masterpiece in its kind, loved by critics and readers. Written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Eduardo Risso (Johny Double, Batman) 100 Bullets is one of those stories you can’t put down and end up looking for all the previous albums!

The story is really complex and reveals itself in every story arc in a way that things you encountered before and didn’t seem to matter are now explained, and still not entirely, an ongoing puzzle, like watching Nolan’s Memento. In a setting sometimes pulled out of a noir film, others reminding Italian mafia and more usually the ghettos, the anti-heroes of this story make their choices knowing or not that everything fits in a greater plan, the ultimate control of America’s most secret syndicate that controlled the world the last half century (yeah, they were not always American, there was no America back then), the Trust. Where in this does agent Graves fit, with his strange suitcases and his secret agenda? As you keep reading you’ll make your own conclusions why this man goes around offering a chance for revenge and redemption, he gives people a gun, undisputable proof of why their lives were destroyed and 100 untraceable bullets, a carte blanche to kill the person responsible for their downfall. Intrigued?

In issue 83 the moment comes when Dizzy Cordova finds out what it takes to be a Minuteman and the Minutemen learn things about her that might hurt. Also Ronnie Rome’s story continues with him under a gun and his only friend ready to take the money and go, but you’d better check it out yourselves, no spoilers are needed. If you haven’t read it go get vol.1 First Shot, Last Call, if you have 83 will be out soon enough!