![]() Two great tastes that don’t most people don’t think to put together.Īt least that’s what I thought until I picked up my first 100 Bullets trade paperback collection, First Shot, Last Call (DC Comics/Vertigo, 2000). Kind of like peanut butter and mayonnaise. Ditto with Max Allan Collins’ Road to Perdition, brought to the screen by Sam Mendes. (Not knocking Christopher Nolan’s reimagining of the series, though-that was cool.) And while Sin City has been around since the early 1990s, I’m willing to bet you never heard of it until this past April, when Robert Rodriguez showed us his version of Frank Miller’s noirville where blood runs in both red and yellow. Batman calls himself a “detective,” and he’s certainly tough, but there’s all that fetishistic rubber to deal with. Yeah, yeah, I know-Mickey Spillane got his start in the comics, and his illustrated private eye Mike Danger eventually begat Mike Hammer. Hardboiled comic fans are a rare breed tough guys don’t usually do funnybooks. ![]() SHOOT TO THRILL: Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets : An Appreciation This originally appeared in issue 8 (Sept/Oct 2005) ![]()
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