Here is the one that convinced me there was greatness here. There is great world building and some fascinating new reveals and there great but the story arc of “loop” is absolutely brilliant, devastating, heartbreaking, so real. I understand this story won and Eisner. It deserved to. It is the story that made this interesting comic great. If the book is never this good again reading that story will have been worth the whole thing. It’s that good.

I can't say that I loved the entire story arc, but I am still interested in seeing where this goes. I do like the increasingly complex way the story is plotted, and I like the way Azzarello gives out just enough hints to keep me interested in the greater story. I also love how the artist, Eduardo Risso, uses shadow and empty spaces on his pages. The book has great atmosphere, in spades.

This was a great story arc in a superior series. Great writing and dynamic artwork. "Agent" Graves steps into and manipulates a world with little hope. These people have largely given up. This is a world where people just want to get by. Taking the easy score when it presents itself. Most mistake apathy for courage and street-smarts. Once again Agent Graves doles out opportunity. Or is it? That's one of the interesting aspects of 100 Bullets. Characters have the opportunity to get what they want...

This series never disappoints. Azzarello and Risso have crafted another ripping yarn filled with broads, bullets and the seediest characters ever seen in fiction - the least of them makes Whitey Bulger look like a saint. Highly recommended.

Yes I have missed out number 2 only because I got given this one for free. This is sooooo much better than the first one!! The story is really good and it is tied up so much neater. I really enjoyed it, gore and all!

Another great entry in this enigmatic and brutal series, slightly let down by its ending.Holy crap, kids! This one has a heart! Not a particularly warm one, but still. The mysterious Graves gives a ghetto kid the traditional briefcase along with a picture, and location, of his absentee father. Will son kill father? That would be too simple, too easy.The art wows as always, and the dialogue is perhaps the best of the series. Hell, the book is the best in the series up until the epilogue, which ha...

Loop is given one of Agent Grave's briefcases and the information for revenge on the person who has done him wrong, his father. Violence as ever ensues in this portrayal of a gritty urban climate. Lono is doing his thing to. We learn more about The Trust conspiracy. The serial is bubbling away nicely and consistently. 8 out of 12.

(Zero spoiler review for the omnibus this story arc collects) 4.5/5I was really looking forward to this. I was holding this one back for a rainy day. One of those reads that you just know you're going to love, so you don't want to burn it too quickly. Once read, it can never again be read for the first time. Now, over the last year or so since its release, there were plenty of times I began to doubt Azarello's ability to deliver on this, for I've read some absolute stinkers from him. Though it w...

Although I had enjoyed the first two trades of 100 Bullets, I'd been unsure if I'd continue reading the series. I picked up this trade on a whim, and I'm glad that I did. Altogether, I think that this is my favorite story arc of 100 Bullets so far. In this trade, a young man (Loop) is given the gun with untraceable bullets and all of the information he needs to find his deadbeat father, whose absence has severely affected Loop's life. Of course, nothing is as straightforward as it seems, and the...

Volume 3 of 100 Bullets is the best volume of the series so far. The stories are starting to connect more and this volume covers one arc and follows a young man from Philadelphia, Loop, who used Agent Graves' information to track down his father who deserted him. Loop becomes entangled with the mov and we get a lot more background on Agent Graves and some other characters who previously appeared in the series. I think this volume won an Eisner. Not sure what year this was published, but this is

The storyline collected in this trade paperback won an Eisner in 2001.Had Azzarello ever met a person of color before, or just seen them on TV? Is there a compelling reason for a 39 year old white guy to be so heavily invested in using the N word? Is he now embarrassed by how poor his dialogue writing skills were? How the fuck did this steaming pile of racist garbage win an Eisner? Were there no other comics out this year? Did the very white Eisner Awards committee also contain no members who'd

A near-perfect set piece. The two previous volumes help readers understand a few details, but you could easily start here. There is a hint of nudity, plenty of f-words, drinking, pool-playing and violence aplenty, but certainly nothing more than most 14-year olds have already encountered on Netflix and YouTube.Unlike the previous, longer 100 Bullets, Vol. 2: Split Second Chance, this has a central story of a father and estranged son to tie the book together. A person could pick this up on its ow...

This is the weakest entry in the series. When you have an anthology of sorts, not all stories are going to meet everyone’s tastes. This was the one that didn’t meet mine. But even still, strong storytelling exists, and enough little tidbits are left to keep you wanting more. And some paid off. When paying attention to throwaway characters like Carlos and Sophie in a prior issue, they are back and payoff for those that paid attention. And in grand storytelling style, what happened with them in be...

Loop is a young man whose encounter with Agent Graves draws him into a world of criminality (not that he needed much coaxing). This is south central style noir, with some dark currents running through it. Crime operates at different levels and a young novice like Loop needs to learn to be clever if he is to outmanoeuvre more seasoned criminals.Agent Graves is less like the agent of justice in this instalment and more of a morally murky character. Intriguing in that I found myself routing for the...

This series gets better and better with each installment. The first of the series had such an interesting premise. What if you were presented with a gun, untraceable ammunition and irrefutable proof of someone’s guilt? Could you “take care of business?” And if you did, how would you live with yourself? As we get deeper down the rabbit hole, the story is less about revenge and the possibility, and so much more about who and why. I love it more and more and am so happy I didn’t start the series un...

It was a very interesting volume with an unexpected ending.I think the story is moving forward nicely.The writing is great. I don not like the artwork :/ but it is bearable.I think it is better than the previous two volumes.And so to the next one...

Everything you may expect in a good comics book is here, no wonder they won an Eisner award. A resolutely dark and violent plot, perfectly serves a very well cut storyboard. It could easily be a movie. I am waiting to see the série on a screen one day. Netflix, please do something with this gem!

This volume introduces a new character named Louis "Loop" Hughes, a young black man from the hood who's never met his father.Thanks to Agent Graves and his attaché case, he will not only meet his father but also have a chance to kill him for abandoning him and his mom.This volume is a little bit different because it doesn't give us any new information about the Trust or Agent Grave. All we learn is that Loop's father used to work with Graves.The art is still as good as ever.

I thought this was a big step up from the previous volume. The main characters were intriguing, the plot had several twists that kept my attention, and there was further foreshadowing that these seemingly unconnected stories actually are leading to something grander. With how hit-or-miss the series is, I'm not sure if I'll stick around to see the ending, but it's nice to see that the author has something planned, and a logic behind how his world works.Rating: 8/10

Solid as a rock. No surprises or big twists and turns here. Just a well told story about a father and son. Honestly, this is probably a better introduction to the series than the first two volumes.The colorist changes to Patricia Mulvihill and she makes Eduardo Risso’s drawings truly pop.