In plain sight or under darkness Agent Graves offers people the chance of revenge against the person who has wronged them, giving them the means and full immunity, even if the revenge results in murder! Latina gangster Isabel Dizzy Cordova just out of prison is given an opportunity, as is out-of-luck bartender Lee Dolan. What will they decide? Welcome to 100 bullets, an uncompromising look at urban decay and the compelling mystery that is Agent Graves! 8.5 out of 12.

Psst. Hey, Bunky! Yeah, you. I hear you’re in the market for a little revenge. What if I were to give you an untraceable gun and 100 shiny untraceable bullets? Just point it at the object of your ire and shoot. No punishment. No worries. Bang, bang and revenge is a dish best served fricassee, and nothing will be traced back to you. Capiche? Sounds too good to be true? Well…This is square one for the acclaimed Azarello/Risso pulpy, morality tale. More episodic than what it later evolved into, thi...

Whoa!This started fairly slowly, like a boxer testing distances with a jab, but then it hit me with a straight left and I didn’t even see the right hook coming in!Writer Brian Azzarello and artist Edward Risso collaborate to bring us a very smooth noir crime story with several twists.Agent Graves (I have a new nickname) visits Dizzy shortly after she is released from prison. While incarcerated her husband and baby were gunned down in a drive by shooting. Graves tells her the official story was w...

I reread this because a student wanted our graphic novels/comics class to read it this term. I looked back at my original, admittedly quick and dismissive assessment of it where I thought it was an okay idea, and the execution of it more than competent, but I hadn't really cared. This was October 2012. So for his sake I reread it, September 2014, and more slowly, respecting his love of the series, and I felt pretty much the same way about it, but again, for his sake, will read on this time, as h...

A paroled ex-convict, mourning the violent murder of her family. A promising restaurateur, with a life destroyed by a false allegation. The mysterious 'Agent Graves' offers them an untraceable handgun and ammunition to seek revenge with guaranteed immunity. Will they accept his unusual offer?This felt like Quentin Tarantino adapted an O. Henry story for a Twilight Zone episode. It had a certain amount of gritty and downbeat noir style, but the subject matter was also distasteful.

So this wasn't as good as I had initially hoped. Don't let that stop you though - you need to read it to get into 100 Bullets, and once you do it just keeps getting better.If you like crime drama and gritty noir-ish comics, this is for you. Premise goes like this: dude shows up with an attache with 100 untraceable bullets, a gun, and irrefutable evidence that somebody did something bad to you - the cause of your misfortune. He offers it to you, saying that whatever you chose to do with it, you'l...

Wrote 100 Bulleys up there by accident, now that's a premise!Mysterious dudes hand out briefcases with a gun and 100 untraceable bullets in it to various low-lifes, giving them motive and opportunity to reek retribution on the peeps that done them wrong.Solid premise, mediocre follow through. First story's in a Chicago barrio and suffers from various embarrassing stereotypes that I could live with, but has sort of an obvious ending. The art's okay (though not so great the artist should be signin...

Re-read - Aug 2018: I've actually read the first 9 volumes far, but I find I'm forgetting a lot of the important characters and plot points, especially the ones planted in earlier volumes. So, I decided to re-read the series and try to read all the volumes much closer together. I don't think I'll change my rating for this volume (the way women are drawn in this is so gross guys - I get it's going for a noir aesthetic, but just ugh, no), but revisiting these characters while knowing things that a...

If you were offered the chance to the kill the person who murdered your family or destroyed your life, and get away with it no questions asked: would you do it? That’s the offer Agent Graves, a mysterious man with an untraceable gun and 100 bullets, presents to Dizzy, a recently released Latina former gangbanger whose husband and baby were gunned down by corrupt cops, and Lee, a bartender whose happily married and prosperous life was destroyed by false paedophilia allegations. Brian Azzarello’s

Loved it. I don't know if they get into the background of Mr. Graves later in the series, but the premise of the first volume stood well all by itself. Two stories in this, the first is excellent if somewhat predictable, but after reading the second story the first felt almost like a red-herring setup, a way to tell you "yes, this book, like all other entertainment properties, is going to go pretty much the way you expect." The second story changed that perception, and even made the first story

I heard nothing about this except that it's going to be a movie or series? And Tom Hardy.Other than that, the story itself sound interesting and something I hadn't of heard before. The art style you get used to, though the in between chapters, the art is a little better. The characters I'm not sure about. I was a little confused at first, but once you get reading, its alright. Overall, an interesting premise to a series I might read more from.

100 Bullets was a monthly comic book. Reading it that way was like plucking your pubes one-by-one, because the overall story arc was so complex that it makes 'Lost' look like an episode of 'According to Jim.' EVERYTHING matters in 100 Bullets, and my little brain couldn’t keep track of things on a monthly basis. So I stopped reading it monthly, waited for the series to finish and picked up all 13 collected editions, planning to read it all in one sitting, more or less. A two week ‘one-sitting’ l...

Eh, it was okay? 2.5 starsI picked this up just to see if it could change my mind on Azzarello. I wasn't a big fan of his Wonder Woman story but I feel like I need more than that before I just write him off entirely. Unfortunately, 100 Bullets hasn't really changed my mind. The basic premise, at least for this first volume, is that there is a (presumably) government agency that offers certain down on their luck people a chance for revenge. An agent shows up and offers a briefcase containing proo...

A strange man approaches you and offers you a briefcase. You've been gravely wronged in the past, and the briefcase contains absolute proof of who wronged you, a gun, and 100 untraceable bullets. What do you do?And that's the main point of 100 Bullets, putting a series of characters into that situation and giving them the choice. And being flawed people who are dealing with a dramatic revelation, they make flawed choices. Azzarello was good at that, making these people and their decisions believ...

The tale of a mysterious man who approaches people who have been wronged and gives them the chance to enact revenge with untraceable guns and 100 bullets, as well as hard evidence on the person who did them wrong and where they can be found. Interesting play of light and darkness as well as the play on the noir genre angles. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B minus to B; ARTWORK: B; STORY/PLOTTING: B minus to B; OVERALL GRADE: B minus to B; WHEN READ: end of January 2012.

Great start! Loved the concept!

Along with his contemporary Ed Brubaker, Azzarello is one of the great crime noir/thriller writers in the comics medium today. With the first volume, I admit that I wasn’t entirely sure if his writing was completely to my liking. The first story-arc in volume one centers on Isabelle “Dizzy” Cordova who, having just been released from several years of hard time for a crime that she didn’t commit, is approached by the mysterious Agent Graves. In this ominous encounter, Graves offers her the titula...

It's a promising start.Vol 1 contains 2 stories.First story is about former gang member who's husband and son where killed by corrupt cops, second is about waiter who's life is destroyed when he is falsely accused of pedophilia.They both where very enjoyable but far from great.It also has slightly obscure visual style in dark pastel colors that fit story well.Overall it is nice noir comic but not good enough to compete with best.

More 3.5*It was interesting but it didn't blow me away. I liked the premise and was intrigued to see what the characters would have done. I do wanna keep reading them because Graves is dodgy and I want to know all about him.

Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s 100 Bullets is more hype than substance thus far. Throughout the 100 total issues of 100 Bullets, the mysterious Agent Graves approaches people who’ve had their lives ruined by nefarious means. The victims get info on who did them wrong, a handgun with 100 untraceable bullets, and, oh yeah, full immunity for whatever revenge they want to take. First Shot, Last Call collects issues 1-5 in the series. This early on, you don’t get Graves’ secret motivation, but I...