It was this detail that reeled readers in and also pushed other readers away. This book is written in common street language where you more likely to hear the word “fuck”“ than “thanks”“. One of the initial elements of this book that caught the attention of comic fans early on was the dialogue. Some call it the hood, some call it low-class, but nobody is calling it the life that they would have chosen. It“s a place where hard times and hard people meet. But if she tells anyone about the gun, the bullets, or the deal, then it all goes away and she is on her own.įrom here Brian Azzarello takes us deep into Dizzy“s world. The man in the suit tells her that if she decides to use “terminal force”“ (love that term) that there will not be any investigation by any branch of law enforcement. So Dizzy exits the train with a briefcase that contains one handgun, 100 untraceable bullets, and hard evidence that the cops who were involved were dirty. Dizzy is told by the man in the suit that her loved ones were gunned down in a drive-by, but not by the gang members she was told who committed the crime, but by two dirty cops. On the train back home a man in a suit sits beside her and makes the pitch you read about before. Isabelle “Dizzy”“ Cordova is fresh out of the state pen and headed back home to the hood where she grew up.

The series asked the question of the reader, “What would you do if you could kill anyone and be guaranteed to get away with it?”“ A pretty damn good question right? What started out as a unique and thought-provoking concept of a secret government agent handing out a case filled with a gun and 100 untraceable bullets quickly escalated into one of the most complex and layered stories in comic book history.

Bullets, sex, violence, spies, betrayal, secret organizations, brutality did I mention violence? This is the series that has it all for the mature comic fan. There has been almost as much inked spilled in writing about the Vertigo series 100 Bullets as there has been blood spilled in the story.

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