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Loveless, Vol. 2: Thicker Than Blackwater (Loveless #2)
Eisner award-winning writer Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS, SUPERMAN: FOR TOMORROW) creates a Western for the new millennium. Reuniting with his HELLBLAZER collaborator, artist Marcelo Frusin, Azzarello fashions a tough-as-nails saga that combines all the bloody action and atmosphere of a Sergio Leone film with the provocative storytelling of HBO's Deadwood.
Wes Cutter is a
...morePaperback, 168 pages
Published
March 28th 2007
by Vertigo
(first published January 1st 2007)
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Like Deadwood, but comics... That’s how everyone describes Brian Azzarello and Marcelo Frusin’s Loveless, because both are foul-mouthed, grisly, and well-written.
The second volume starts off with flashbacks for Wes Cutter, his wife Ruth, and former slave Atticus Mann (all drawn by Daniel Zezelj). Then, things get back into gear with the story of a couple killed in their house, and a bounty hunter coming to Blackwater to kill Wes, now the sherrif in town.
The series has only been around for 12 is...more
The second volume starts off with flashbacks for Wes Cutter, his wife Ruth, and former slave Atticus Mann (all drawn by Daniel Zezelj). Then, things get back into gear with the story of a couple killed in their house, and a bounty hunter coming to Blackwater to kill Wes, now the sherrif in town.
The series has only been around for 12 is...more
I still didn't like this any better than the first volume. It's very bleak and depressing and there's no character that's even remotely sympathetic. I know people can be horrible, but this paints the kind of picture I don't want to look at. I think what bothers me is that there seems to be no hope at all - no hope and no point. I have the third volume here, so I'm going to read that as well, but I have to say I prefer Jonah Hex.
What I dislike most, I think, is the crudeness. Again, I've watched...more
What I dislike most, I think, is the crudeness. Again, I've watched...more
Mar 28, 2011
Federiken Masters
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
westernistas y antiwesternistas
Recommended to Federiken by:
El #1
Y acá se va todo al carajo, para bien. ¿Cómo seguir una serie hasta un tercer tomo cuando a fines del segundo no queda casi nadie vivo de los personajes recurrentes? Lea Loveless y tendrá la respuesta. Con el correr de los capítulos la serie gana en impredecible y en impresionante. Guion y dibujo se unen con armonía y sinergia y todos salen ganando. Particularmente interesante me pareció el recurso de usar "fantasmas" para los flashbacks. Creo que en el #1 ya lo usaban, pero es acá donde empieza...more
I think I have a problem with Brian Azzarello's writing. You can always tell that there's some kind of "big picture" thing going on with his series, but you can never really get at it by reading an issue or two at a time. If it lowers you in my eyes for me to tell you that I still don't know what he's trying to say with Loveless, so fucking be it. And, on top of his minimalist dialogue, there's always this vague-looking art to go along with it. I might check this out when the series ends, but I...more
Brian Azzarello, Loveless: Thicker than Blackwater (Vertigo, 2007)
After the nastiness that plagued the first volume of Loveless, did you really expect things to get better? This is the world of Brian Azzarello, folks, and in this world, things do not end well. The carpetbaggers decided to kill two (or, in fact, many more) birds with one stone by appointing Wes Cutter the Sheriff of Blackwater; no one had any idea he'd actually take the job seriously, least of all Wes Cutter himself. But when a s...more
After the nastiness that plagued the first volume of Loveless, did you really expect things to get better? This is the world of Brian Azzarello, folks, and in this world, things do not end well. The carpetbaggers decided to kill two (or, in fact, many more) birds with one stone by appointing Wes Cutter the Sheriff of Blackwater; no one had any idea he'd actually take the job seriously, least of all Wes Cutter himself. But when a s...more
Capita a volte che dialoghi troppo secchi, tagliati con l'accetta, e una sceneggiatura sincopata, con rapidi cambi di scena, non facciano una storia cruda e dinamica, ma una mezza storia.
The first volume of Loveless "A Kin of Homecoming" left me eagerly waiting for more. The book offered top-grade storytelling and tackled heavy themes directly and fearlessly, offering a modern, analytical viewpoint into the years following the American Civil War.
"Thicker than Blackwater" follows organically from "A Kin of Homecoming," but Brian Azzarello doesn't quite manage to keep his storylines and characters in a cohesive formation. The volume feels fractured and unfocused compared with the...more
"Thicker than Blackwater" follows organically from "A Kin of Homecoming," but Brian Azzarello doesn't quite manage to keep his storylines and characters in a cohesive formation. The volume feels fractured and unfocused compared with the...more
Un traspaso e historias más íntimas que dan el contexto a la idea central. Buen puente al descenlace.
A good second volume. The flashbacks at the beginning are standouts, and the subtlety the characters gain is great.
(See review for Volume 3)
Even more fun.
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Aug 09, 2007
Trevor
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
100 Bullets or Preacher GN readers.
Wow...this is a pretty brutal book, but I imagine the Civil War was in many ways brutal off the battlefields as well as on. A man once thought dead, captured up north, returns to Blackwater and is made sheriff of the town. Blackwater attracts death, crime, sex, and plenty of hot lead exchanges. There are no "good guys" in this book.
I'm just not into this series...
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Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. He and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double, won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".
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