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100 Bullets, Vol. 11: Once Upon a Crime (100 Bullets #11)
Collecting issues #76-83 of the acclaimed series by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso and Dave Johnson! The Trust, Agent Graves and the Minutemen arrive in Mexico for a showdown that will mark the end for at least one major player, while the mystery behind the Atlantic City job is finally revealed.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
August 1st 2007
by Vertigo
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While the third and last act of this gritty crime series is winding down to its end, the dizziness is only increasing. Just when you thought this series was making sense, guess again. True, this is still the revenge tale of Agent Graves as he seeks to reactivate the Minutemen and line them up against the remaining houses of the Trust – less than eight of the original thirteen remaining, by my last count. (They keep getting off-ed increasingly in these last volumes.) But the multitude of characte...more
This a review of the entire series.
While the writer begins to tell an intriguing tale of deception, morality, and vengeance, it falls short of expectations. Early in the series Brian Azzarello loses control of the details, motivations, and ultimately the thrust behind the narrative. The reader is expected to follow along the trail of poorly conceived plot twists as characters, who have been steadfastly loyal in the past, seemingly switch sides or join forces with little reason beyond ...more
While the writer begins to tell an intriguing tale of deception, morality, and vengeance, it falls short of expectations. Early in the series Brian Azzarello loses control of the details, motivations, and ultimately the thrust behind the narrative. The reader is expected to follow along the trail of poorly conceived plot twists as characters, who have been steadfastly loyal in the past, seemingly switch sides or join forces with little reason beyond ...more
This volume had the most gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, heart-strings-pulling moment of the series for me. Unfortunately, the rest of the volume is a mess. A lot of running around, switching back and forth between characters, towns, cities, decades...a constant sense of confusion and no real time to let things sink in. I suppose it reads better as issues.
The series is getting darker and harder to stomach, but I am one away from the end and so am sticking it out. The view of life and humanity is so unrelentingly dark that it starts feeling a lot like variations on the same theme, again and again, with no real surprises. There is not much nuance here: people are all bad, all wounded, all self-interested.
OK, the world is massively messed up on many levels, but is it really this bad and always so? A bit more complex of a worldview, ...more
OK, the world is massively messed up on many levels, but is it really this bad and always so? A bit more complex of a worldview, ...more
Someone said that every time a new 100 Bullets trade comes out, they feel like they have to read all the previous ones to get back into the story. I totally agree, but no matter how many times I've done it, I'll do it again. This volume is probably THE most shocking in the whole series as the heat is turned up on all our characters, and the factions vie for supremacy in Graves' war on the Trust. When I first read this one, I HATED the ending. It just totally pissed me off. But upon reread, I've ...more
Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets: Once Upon a Crime (Vertigo, 2007)
There are times over the course of its run when 100 Bullets has been the best comic series going. Once upon a Crime is not one of those times, but a new book in the series, no matter how far it slips off the rails, is still going to be better than a good deal of what you read in the same month.
This is a setup volume, where we spend time getting ready for the big final bangup while learning backstory on some ch...more
There are times over the course of its run when 100 Bullets has been the best comic series going. Once upon a Crime is not one of those times, but a new book in the series, no matter how far it slips off the rails, is still going to be better than a good deal of what you read in the same month.
This is a setup volume, where we spend time getting ready for the big final bangup while learning backstory on some ch...more
More setup in the 11th hour volume, as we get a closer look at Graves, his Minutemen, and the plot between the Trust and their former enforcers. As the final pieces are put into place, one cannot help but wonder if volumes 10 and 11 could have been combines into a more streamlined arc.
The story is starting to flush itself out now. I'm still not sure where it is going, but at least I can keep up. I liked learning a little bit about Shepard's back story, and I like that the Minute Men/People are getting togeher finally. I can't wait to finish the series.
I think we are nearing the end of this wonderful series. I have a feeling that the whole is going to be greater than the parts, and the parts are excellent. The end game is coming soon, and I have no idea how it will end.
This was the first "100 Bullets" issue I read and I found it incredibly confusing. Who are these people? Good? Bad? Cops? Mafia? Still not quite sure.
I think I'm at the point where I just can't keep all the characters and double-crossing straight. The series is starting to give me a headache.
Things get murky here, but if you've gone this far, you have to see it through...
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100 Bullets Vol. 11: Once Upon a Crime by Brian Azzarello (2007)
Good book.
This is the volume that really makes it feel as though the endgame is about to start. Everything starts to converge, leading to some shocking developments.
Yet it seems strangely fitting that Azzarello chooses this moment to spend some time on a flashback to a character who has been dead for a while. It's almost as though he's taking a deep breath to remind us where we've come from before plunging onward.
Yet it seems strangely fitting that Azzarello chooses this moment to spend some time on a flashback to a character who has been dead for a while. It's almost as though he's taking a deep breath to remind us where we've come from before plunging onward.
The whatchamacallit ... the "widening gyre" ... of the plot seems to be twisting back inside itself, setting up for something big, shedding some of the unnecessary entropic bits. There are some nice flashbacks of a young Shepherd (was he gay? nice touch, that...), and Graves seems to be getting nastier, but on the whole this seems to be a set-up volume. I await the next installment.
Azzarello and Risso continue their top-notch stylized dialogue and art. Sadly, the extremely layered and complex plot also continues. As I've said while reading past volumes, I'll really need to go back and re-read the whole series in one sitting to understand what all the members of the Trust are talking about.
This series is really well done, though every time the new collection comes out i feel i have to read the whole thing to get the big picture because there is so much going on with so many characters and side stories and such. When read together im sure it's even better.
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I'm trying to understand the plot, I am failing miserably. All the male characters look very similar, and the time switches are hard for me to catch because of it.
The last two books finally took me over the edge... I no longer care enough about these characters to wade through the muck. I'm done.
A little disappointing after how good numbers 9 and 10 were. The second story arc is rather annoying and overly uneventful.
I doubted when I started, but I'm utterly entranced by this series now. Fantabulous story!
Still a good read, but not quite up to par with the series so far.
Crime Noir. People die again, story advances, good graphic novel
"Why Isn't This An HBO Show?" - the comic book 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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