‘100 Bullets’ Archives
100 Bullets v13: Wilt
HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD!! It only took me a little more than 2 weeks, but here's the final volume of one of the best and most ambitious crime series. These last 12 issues are not exactly an arc, they're just ongoing stories that build to the big finale. So I'll discuss them separately. 89) Flashback to 1961, Graves kills Javier's father, which [...]
100 Bullets v12: Dirty
SPOILERS WARNING!! This penultimate volume contains 5 single issue stories that lead us to the final volume. Issue 84 is about Sigmar Rhone, a powerful member of the Trust. He seemingly is a family man, has a beautiful wife and kids, but he obviously likes other women. He has sex with Megan's assistant who tells him that Graves, Javier and [...]
100 Bullets v11: Once Upon a Crime
SPOILERS!! Things are really heating up among the Minutemen. We now have 3 distinct groups: 1) Graves, Burns and Remi. Burns seems to be very loyal to Graves. Remi is a bit crazy and seems more like a hired gun. 2) Wylie and Dizzy. Wylie was the "field leader", he's smarter and the others would listen to him. But he's also conflicted about [...]
100 Bullets v10: Decayed
SPOILERS WARNING!! The opening arc of this volume reveals a lot about the past. In the '60 we learn that Javier, Augustus and Graves ascended to power replacing their old predecessors: Neil Walker was the previous Agent, Augustus and Javier replaced their fathers. But how much further does their alliance go? We also meet Shepherd's predecessor, [...]
100 Bullets v09: Strychnine Lives
SPOILERS WARNING! This volume sees that start of Lono's "game". Up until now he's been a free lancer, and didn't want to be involved with either Graves or the Trust. But now that Shepherd has passed his torch to Lono, he part of the game. In The Calm (#59) Lono and Loop are released and they go get Victor, on Graves' orders. Lono tells [...]
100 Bullets v08: The Hard Way
SPOILERS WARNING!! This volume starts with a bang. It's the 50th issue, halfway through the series, and we finally get a lot of answers about the Trust and the Minutemen. Victor, the latest Minutemen we discover, tells the origins of the Trust going back to the discovery of America. That's why the Trust basically controls the USA, they were the [...]
100 Bullets v07: Samurai
SPOILERS AHEAD!! There are two story arcs in this seventh volume (the title suggests the movie "Seven Samurai"). The first arc takes place in prison, where Loop is joined by Lono. This felt very much like OZ, the HBO series. There are many factions in prison, they all fight each other. Each faction has its own leader, and power is gotten [...]
100 Bullets v06: Six Feet under the Gun
SPOILERS WARNING!! This 6th volume contains 6 single stories about some of the big players in this series. It's a way to both further the overall plot as well as allow some characters to have some personal time away from the big conspiracy. The first story is a good example. Dizzy goes back to Chicago and meets with her girlfriends. They [...]
100 Bullets v05: The Counterfifth Detective
SPOILERS AHEAD!! This is the other volume that contains one story arc. It's amazing that the actual title of the story has a reference to the correct number of the eventual volume collecting it. Azzarello must have made his calculations very well. This feels very much like a classic noir film like The Maltese Falcone. The plot is very [...]
100 Bullets v04: A Foregone Tomorrow
SPOILERS AHEAD!! This forth volume gives us even more information about the Trust, as well as introducing us to some more Minutemen. The Mimic (#20) is a conversation between Shepherd and Benito. We learn a little bit about Shepherd's past, that he was a Minutemen but was promoted by the Trust. He tells Benito about Graves and his plans, so [...]
100 Bullets v03: Hang Up on the Hang Low
SPOILERS AHEAD!! This third volume contains one single story, the only one of two among the 13 total volumes (the other one being volume 5). This is an award winning story, and it's not only a great 100 Bullets story, it's just a great noir story. The title of this volume is the same as the storyline, but it's an exception to the volume [...]
100 Bullets v02: Split Second Chance
SPOILERS AHEAD!! This second volume contains many stories, 1-3 issues each. This will be the typical format of this series, with the exception of a few longer arcs. The conspiracy is really brought forward in this volume, many pieces of the puzzle are showed here, and we slowly put the overall plot together. Issues 6-7 form the story of Pony [...]
100 Bullets v01: First Shot, Last Call
Here's another long series that I started to read years ago, but stopped during the various country hopping I did in 1999-2002. Now that the series is over, I can finally go back and re-read it all and connect all the dots. This is really a series that needs to be read with attention to details, what with writer Brian Azzarello having worked out [...]