By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 8/11/2015
It was just a few months back that Tom Hardy had hinted that he was working on a DC Comics adaptation, with all kinds of guesses flying around as to what he could have been referring to. Planetary? The Invisibles? Hitman? Per THR, we now have an answer, as they report that Hardy is set […]
By: Manuel Ramos,
on 2/10/2011
Back in 2005, I interviewed Brian Azzarello for Issue 9 of Crimespree Magazine, and he followed up with an invite to write an introduction to a compilation of his blockbuster crime fiction series, 100 Bullets. 100 Bullets was one of those rare phenomenons: extremely popular and universally praised by critics. Everyone from the New York Times Book Review to The Onion, as well as fellow comic book artists and writers, heaped praised on the series. For example: "100 Bullets is to crime comics as The Wire is to cop shows" - Chicago Sun-Times. "For our money, the best current ongoing series" - Playboy. "For a noir junkie like myself, who is always looking for the new spin on the old school, I feel like I've died and gone to Chandler-Heaven. It honestly does not get much better than this" - Greg Rucka. The series won the 2002 Harvey Awards for Best Writer, Best Artist and Best Continuing Series, and the 2003 Harvey Award for Best Artist, as well as the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story, and the 2002 and 2004 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series. In sum, it was a hit, a milestone, a classic.
So getting asked to do an intro to one of the compilations was a big deal for me. What I came up with appeared in compilation #9, Strychnine Lives (Vertigo), which collected issues 59-67 and was published in 2006. Eventually, there were 100 individual issues and 13 compilations. The series ran from 1999-2009; ten years of top-quality writing and excellent graphic artistry that set a new standard and influenced and changed the world of graphic novels and comic books.
Here's my introduction.
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Brian Azzarello once said, “The worst things you can read are things
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Great actor to be working on 100 Bullets, but it’s a property that I think would make a much better tv show than a movie. Just the initial concept of someone getting 100 untraceable bullets before rest of the back story comes into play, is something that works best when you see the results of many different characters, rather than it play out just once.
I don’t disagree.