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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
First class!!, 31 Aug 2006
Brian Azzarello deserves - certainly on the strength of this volume - to be considered in the same echelon as the top crime and noir thriller writers, living or dead. This is simply top-drawer storytelling, and even aside from the intrigue and byzantine plotting of The Trust and The Minutemen, this volume is compelling enough, just through the sad figure of the New Orleans horn player whose story will jar on the emotions of even the hardest-hearted literary thrillseekers.
This book is much more than 'Tarantino in softcover'. Do yourself a favour and read this series - before it get's the inevitable screen treatment; which - I warn you - will NEVER do full justice to Azzarello's work here.
Essential!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Very, very cool, 18 Jan 2005
100 BULLETS: FIRST SHOT, LAST CALL was cool and SPLIT SECOND CHANCE is just as good! In the first half we get a few more of Agent Graves' proposals and then in the second half things start coming together! Some questions get answered as to who Graves is, who he works for, why he has power and what his intentions are. Well, they aren't fully answered, but as characters like Dizzy come back into the story we start to get the sense of a bigger picture and things start to come together a bit. This book is a lot more complicated than FIRST SHOT, LAST CALL as we see start seeing how the wheels within wheels work, and the storyline throws up more surprises - and not just surprises that have a bearing on that particular storyline, but the whole series too. Its woven with craft and Azzarello shows that he is as adept at writing gripping individual stories, as he is at writing larger and more intricate ones.
The stories are all full of very colourful, very human and highly believable characters and its what makes the books so enjoyable. The plot is excellent, but we can also relate to these characters - we can understand their pain, plight and temptation, and thats what makes it so engaging. The art is creative, evocative and captures the characters' personalities well. It also gives a wonderful gangster-noir atmosphere to the book and drives the story along very smoothly. If you like crime, noir or gangster stories then you should like this; don't even bother watching any of the movies or tv programs out there... ...just pick up your attaché of 100 BULLETS.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
100 bullets. best series getting better, 17 Feb 2002
By A Customer
so, it's the third volume in the 100 bullets saga, and things are picking up some speed.
azzarello has created some truly terrific characters. anyone who appreciates hard-boiled fiction (chandler, ellroy, leonard, HK action films) will instantly love Loop and his dad, and crazy man Lono. and Graves is cooler than Bond! all in all, risso's art really makes this an excellent read. and some killer covers as well! personally, i collect it on a monthly basis (its 30 days of twitching, waiting, biting my nails), but if u want instant gratification, than just buy the trade paperbacks and immerse urself in the 100 bullets universe, complete with tough,beautiful girls and mono-sylabic hard men.
and just wait till u meet the counterfifth detective (issues 30+). can u say "marlowe"?
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