On A Scale Of 1 to AWESOME, This Is Pretty Great

Hey, great piece, Tom B. I'm pretty sure that the exploding dinosaur head is the most awesome thing that's going to happen around here, or anywhere else, for quite a while.

Though, I both look forward to and fear your next contribution, Quite Wicked Religions and Messiahs - Jesus.

I mean, how am I supposed to follow ALAN MOORE?
Hey buddy, I remember my first fringe comic by an industry godfather too!
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Right, well I'm going to talk about a comic that I quite like now. It's sort of stupid sometimes, but it's mostly not, and it's sort of fantastic sometimes, but it mostly is. I like 100 Bullets.



100 Bullets is just so good. It is. I'm sorry. Deal with it. It's written by Brian Azzarello, and drawn, perfectly!, by Eduardo Risso. Azzarello's an American and Risso is some kind of Mexican or something, and they mail each other their work and collaborate over vast distances. It's sort of beautiful, no? Like The Postal Service of comics, but less material about having your heart hurt because a girl broke your hair straighteners, and more stuff about having your heart hurt because there's a bullet in it. I know!

Here's the premise (pay attention): So this guy, this old guy, he's wearing sunglasses, right? And you think, "What the shit? Why is this old craggy dude wearing sunglasses?" But then this old guy comes and sits next to you and makes inane chat about how great the chair he's sitting on is or something, and you're all like, "Frosty Jesus! Where is this old guy going with this?!", but then BAM. Briefcase. Old guy gives you a briefcase. In it is a GUN, 100 untraceable bullets, and incontrovertible proof that you should probably shoot someone in the face. What would you do?

It's so simple!

Well, that's the basic premise. There's also an over-arcing, um, arc, about a violent aristocracy being over-thrown in modern day America, but that has bullets in it too, so it's ok.

So far, there've been, I think, 86 issues, and it's going to run to a full 100, because it's called 100 Bullets and that sort of synchronicity is cool. It's just cool.

Next time I speak to you guys I might make a feature out of my favourite character from this series. I'm not telling you who it is though. You won't guess it. Seriously, you won't. IT'S NOT THIS GUY.
EVEN THOUGH HE CUTS OFF PEOPLE'S WANGS AND SMOKES THEM IN A TOTALLY HETERO AND SCARILY AWESOME WAY!

So, yeah. Tune in next time to find out who's even cooler than that maybe.

Love,
Tom W