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May

100 Bullets #84

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Categories: New Issue Review, Vertigo Comics, New Story Arc, DC Comics and 100 Bullets Tags: 100 Bullets, DC Comics, New Issue Review, New Story Arc, Vertigo Comics.

Your favorite Vertigo series is back and the synopsis of the July issue is released! Marching towards the last 15 issues 100 Bullets becomes more thrilling than ever, the plot is finally being revealed step by step and the dark characters of Azarello’s and Risso’s noir vision approach the grand finale. What really happened in Atlantic City? What’s agent Graves’ secret agenda? What will be Dizzy Cordova’s fate and what about the rest of the Minutemen? Well, in a little more than a year there will be no secrets left so enjoy it while it lasts!

After the events of #81-83 in Rome the story shifts to two other heroes, the Minutemen Victor Ray and Remi Rome, the description in the official site of Vertigo is the following:
“Minutemen Victor Ray and Remi Rome are in need of a vacation, so they head to scenic Lake Tahoe for some R and R with the beautiful people. But you know what they say — “All play and no work make The Minutemen dull boys…””

So is this going to be a revealing issue about the facts of the past through a seemingly indifferent event or a break between two big story turns? There have been quite a few of both in the past 83 issues so any bet is not safe, but really who cares? This is one of the best written comics ever made, a masterpiece of narrative coming to a peak, are you really going to ignore it?

Apr

100

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Categories: DC Comics Tags: 100 Bullets, DC Comics.

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!