HOLY SHIT! this arc starts with subtle props to Shoot the Piano Player (which i also just recently read), then begins a standard noir pretzel plot with a private detective getting out of the hospital with his head in wraps (a cool touch) and some clever dialogue, BUT the last 10 pages of the 4th issue in this arc is exactly why comics RULE: back and forth frames showing the perspective of two men with concealed guns across the bar of a crowded diner locked in a non-verbal battle of wills, so-to-...

The worst (and saddest) thing about Azzarello is that once he creates compelling characters, he buries them in a stew of multithreaded storylines while trying to bring noir to a new level, leaving us with a tangled mess of unresolved subplots and unanswered questions.

Well, sadly this volume was a little disappointing. The story was fine, and the art is still great, but the characterizations were so cliché that I had a lot trouble getting into it. That is the whole point of the hard-boiled detective, but that's been done and done far better. It just seems to me if you're going to play around with a genre that has been done to death, you should do something different with it. Sadly, this was just obvious and predictable; disappointing.

Milo is arguably on of the best characters in the series, his dialogues were gold, and if you've read you'll know how I feel about the ending :(

I’m practicing a new policy of only rating the last book in the series once I’m done with it in its entirety. However, I loved this volume as a stand alone piece of art. Between the art, the writing, the dialogues and monologues, and right down to the title. It really felt like watching a gritty detective movie. And it still fit into the larger story arch, but cut a niche of monologues and metaphors from the single perspective. Even the panels follow the medium, showing subtle detail as a scene

The first story to really be a straight take on the hard boiled detective noir. With dead bodies, beautiful women, hard drinking, and no one to trust, Milo has a lot on his plate already without having Agent Graves show up with his infamous case of 100 Bullets. Well told throughout it reminded me more of Sin City than Raymond Chandler, but there were influences everywhere. Having the protagonist's face wrapped in bandages from start to finish was a great concept to let the reader project their p...

Best of the series, a hard boiled detective chapter that will be hard to top. The cards were dealt in the previous chapter but this storyline was leagues a head of the previous chapters. Great tough private detective attempting to put all the pieces together. It was gritty and tough with femme fatales, big players and a painting at the center. You can't fault something that is just brilliant, I really don't expect the series to reach this height again.

My least favorite of the series so far.

This was my favorite so far and that's saying something since I finished a bit confused on a few key points.

Agent Graves' self serving offers of premeditated revenge murders with guaranteed immunity, continue; his latest client private investigator Milo Garrett has a mission, but is he sure of it, and why's Lono on the scene? The gritty urban American mystery crime thriller continues it's blood soaked path. 7.5 out of 12.

Another powerful chapter in the 100 Bullets saga, introducing a new character who seems to have forgotten his past, one that plays into the overarching storyline of the series. He’s now a detective and finds himself drawn into a real mystery, one that keeps him busy to the very end.

I call "lame" on this one.

kind of dull and the story went in circles just to have you find out nothing really.

What looks like a classic noir/hardboiled detective story rehashing all the clichés you can think of (hard-drinking detective down on his luck, hot femme fatales entering the office late at night etc.) soon becomes a twisted little anti-detective novel where the real case is the detective's search for his own identity/past. As a hommage to Raymond Chandler it worked, but I'm not so sure whether it sits well with the rest of the series. I found Megan Dietrich's sexcapade to be out-of-character an...

(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...

This collection stays focused on Milo Garret, a private detective who wanders around with bandages around his head from the accident that....The specifics of plot were a little lost to me. There are some interesting shifts in time and memory and plenty of characters: Lono, Echo, Monroe Tannenbaum, Detective Chet, Megan Dietrich. The series seems to have shifted course to being a little more about style and a little less about substance. There's not much about the Minute Men, not much about the m...

While this is the most classically noir of the series thus far, it is also the weakest. The narration jags on the modern ear, the story lacks the clarity of earlier entries, and it mostly ignores the main hook of the series. Add to that an unearned twist in the tail and you've got a minor disappointment. Luckily, the art still stuns and the dialogue crackles, which is just enough to make it worth a look. We'll see if it's essential to the wider tale and/or a harbinger of a quality drop, but I ho...

Reprints 100 Bullets #31-36 (February 2002-July 2002). Milo Garret is a hardboiled detective who is recovering after losing a fight with his windshield after a car accident. Wrapped in bandages, Milo finds himself approached by Agent Graves who tells Milo that he has a chance to get even with the man who set him up…but Milo quickly finds himself caught in a spiral of lies and allies who might not be who they say they are. Milo is about to discover that the past he thought he knew might not be as...

A bit of meh. :/ volume.From the start to end. Milo story with his bandages and attitude seemed interesting at first but it all went down hell from there. :/ Still do not like the artwork.A bit disappointed but :/ still want to see where this is going.

This book is more than a little racist, misogynist, classist, and homophobic. I’m sure the writer believes that he’s just adding flavor or personality or some nonsense, but so much of it is really unnecessary and adds nothing whatsoever to the read. I’m disappointed.