Loveless Vol. 2: Thicker Than Blackwater - Softcover

Brian Azzarello

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401212506 ISBN 13: 9781401212506

Publisher: Vertigo, 2007

Synopsis

Wes Cutter, a former Confederate soldier, is appointed sheriff of Blackwater, his hometown, by Union soldiers and must find the killer behind a series of brutal murders that may reveal the town's dark past.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Azzarello's work on 100 Bullets and Jonny Double, as well as Batman, Hellblazer, and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel has catapulted him to the forefront of the ranks of contemporary comics writers, winning him several Eisner awards. Danijel Zezelj has worked on Weird War Tales and Flinch, and his illustrations regularly appear in The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Chronicle.

From Publishers Weekly:

In the title story of this second volume by 100 Bullets writer Azzarello of his jet-black, ultraviolent western set in a corrupt Reconstruction-era town, the universally despised, mean-as-a-polecat new sheriff (and former Confederate soldier) Wes Cutter sets about investigating a series of gruesome murders. But the motives and victims are intimately tied to the town's muddy history, and Cutter finds himself targeted as the next job for the undertaker. The main story is preceded by three shorter character sketches, fleshing out Cutter's personal history as well as the backstories of his wife, Ruth, and a former slave turned bounty hunter, Atticus Mann. The stories are built around a series of flashbacks in which colorist Patricia Mulvihill's palette shifts from dusty, twilit tones to sunbaked sepia. The artwork—two chapters drawn by series cocreator Marcelo Frusin, the rest by Daniel Zezelj and Werther Dell'edera—is as stylized and chiaroscuro-laden as a vintage noir movie. What trips up Azzarello's story, though, is its combination of nastiness and understatement—there's a lot more cussing and bleeding than there is exposition. The book's deep shadows, oblique images and thick dialect impede clarity, and it takes several readings to even make sense of the brutal, surprising conclusion. (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1401212506
• ISBN 13: 9781401212506
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168
• Illustrator: Danijel Zezelj, Marcelo Frusin, Werther Dell'Edera