The muted colors from Grant Goleash enhance this further, with a limited color palette achieving a similar noir atmosphere to many hardboiled films. There's a palpable danger to his settings that often make you wonder when exactly the violence is going to erupt. He has a style that reminds me of Goran Parlov and Goran Sudžuka, mixed with a bit of Hugo Pratt and Frank Miller (I think I may also be missing a shared influence here, Guido Crepax maybe?), resulting in fine-lined characters with some interesting facial structures and a lot of shadows. That atmosphere is also exemplified in Eduardo Risso's exquisite artwork. By and large, they're not nice people and it adds to the overall atmosphere of the stories.

This shines through in Azzarello's dialogue as he creates verbal patterns for each setting that don't necessarily endear us to the characters.

The characters are mostly deeply flawed, their attitudes could often charitably be called “problematic”, and they might not exactly make the right or noble choices. The world that 100 Bullets presents is rough around the edges. A variety that hooked you even before you found out that you were neck-deep in a conspiracy. Personally, I think it's a brilliant set-up, because it allowed Azzarello and Risso to amass a number of different types of crime stories at the beginning of the series while developing the deeper lore behind it. Shepherd, Dizzy Cordova-a recipient of Graves' offer that potentially could become much more-and Megan Dietrich-introduced as possibly one of Graves' enemy with an interesting brooch. Here in the first few stories, we're introduced to Graves, his associate Mr. Little bits of information are doled out as the story builds a deeper mystery. Each story is relatively self-contained with the mysterious Agent Graves making the offer of an attache case filled with the gun, bullets, evidence, and immunity to various individuals, but why and if it ties to anything larger is left to subsequent chapters.

The first volume offers up three stories, setting up what's more or less the format for the first couple of years in the series. The series kicks off with the first volume First Shot, Last Call by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso, Grant Goleash, Digital Chameleon, and Clem Robins. emerson eddy - What would you do if a stranger offered you a gun, one hundred bullets, and the opportunity to right a wrong in your life without any consequences? This is the question asked that serves as the central premise to one of the best crime series in comics, 100 Bullets, a gritty noir that begins simply and wends its way through layers of intrigue, action, and suspense.

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