100 Bullets Vol. 7: Samurai - Softcover

Azzarello, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140120189X ISBN 13: 9781401201890

Publisher: Vertigo, 2004

Synopsis

Brian Azzarello's and Eduardo Risso's VERTIGO crime saga 100 BULLETS continues its collected editions with 100 BULLETS: SAMURAI, reprinting issues #43-49 of the critically acclaimed and award-winning ongoing series. This seventh volume, featuring the story arcs "Chill in the Oven" and "In Stinked," features a new cover by Dave Johnson and an introduction by legendary Argentinean comics writer Carlos Trillo.This 168-page trade paperback returns first to the character of Loop Hughes, who is joined in prison by Lono, and then to Jack Daw, who finds himself in a roadside zoo face to face with several varieties of wild animals — both two — and four-legged!

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About the Author

Brian Azzarello has been writing comics professionally since the mid-1990s. He is the author of Jonny Double, Batman: Broken City, and the Harvey and Eisner Award-winning 100 Bullets, all created in collaboration with artist Eduardo Risso. Azzarello’s other work for DC includes Hellblazer and Loveless with Marcelo Frusin; Dark Knight III: The Master Race with Frank Miller, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson; Superman: For Tomorrow with Jim Lee; Joker and Luthor with Lee Bermejo; Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and A Hard Place with Joe Kubert; Filthy Rich with Victor Santos; and most recently the all-new ongoing series Wonder Woman with Cliff Chiang.

Reviews

Azzarello's hard-boiled dialogue, twisty plots, and compelling if unsavory characters have made him one of mainstream comics' most popular writers. Azzarello's comic-book noir, 100 Bullets, remains the best demonstration of his pulpish but modern sensibilities. samurai revisits two characters from earlier episodes. Loop Hughes, one recipient of a briefcase containing an untraceable gun and 100 rounds of ammunition from the enigmatic Agent Graves, is now behind bars and trying to evade a con out to kill him. And then a hit man for the shadowy organization Graves works for lands in the cell next to Loop's. For sheer brutality, Azzarello's gritty rendition of prison life falls just short of Oz--pretty harrowing stuff by comics standards. In the other story here, Jack Daw and his friend Mickey are headed to Atlantic City--site of a pivotal event in the series' animating conspiracy, which remains shrouded in mystery--when they get involved with an illegal roadside zoo, a corrupt cop, and mafiosi. Risso's sparse, atmospheric art ideally complements Azzarello's morally murky vision. As always, the tales in Samurai advance the series' overriding story line, which has now reached its halfway point. Gordon Flagg
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Edition details

• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140120189X
• ISBN 13: 9781401201890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168