100 Bullets Discussion (spoilers)

E said:
I read the first trade and liked it.

Does the book change much after the first 6 or 7 issues? Based on the summaries I had read of subsequent trades it seemed like the book was about something different than before.
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Graves hasn't given the brief case to anyone in about 11 issues.

But it's still awesome.

Basically, at first, Graves goes around giving brief cases to people and it's just wonderful. But as he goes through, we start to get a sense of a larger tapestry at work (you see it in the second story in the first trade, the guy who was arrested for having child pornography on his hard drive) and that becomes more and more focused around the seven Minutemen.

But every minuteman is introduced to us with Graves giving them the briefcase with 100 bullets. So these guys we're reading about - it's an extension of that single premise because the characters - while they had a life prior to the briefcase - their stories all start with the briefcase.

There's more to it. But the way it move seamlessly from the premise into a large crime conspiracy is ****ing astounding. It's such a brilliant comic.

Not only that - but those incidental background characters? I don't know how- but Azzarello manages to keep bringing them back again and again.

There's a background character that crops up in the third trade, HANG UP ON THE HANG LOW - when I say background - the character is a tertiary character for one the trade's sub-plots - a sub-plot that is present in only two issues.

That character returns in #85 and... well, let's say that it's possible the main cast of 100 BULLETS is one less.

It's a terrific comic that works best when read back to back because it's just so dense.

There's still a few things, major things, not revealed - like just who the hell the Minutemen set on fire in Atlantic City. But it's a joy finding out.
 
Caught up how? What was the last issue you read?

I'm on #85 which I don't think is in TPB.
 
They 'stole' America in some fashion - as far as I can tell they just went to America when it was "The New World" and took it over and told all the other countries to **** right off.

But, I know what you mean. #84, with Sigmar just seeing his whole family die was really brutal.

Also, Benito isn't really a bad guy. I think it's likely he and the Minutemen will form a new Trust. (I think that's Lono's plan.)

Such an awesome comic.
 
I'm waiting until it's done, like I did with Preacher and am also doing with Y. It's one hundred issues, right? So, in about a year.
 
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Transferred from the General Veritgo thread, in case anybody wants to keep up the discussion...
Scarecrow said:
I only read the first 100 bullets TPB, and I liked it, but I felt like it was just going to turn into a continuous strain of one-shots, which is enjoyable if written well. Does the book end up tying together well - do characters meet up, do we actually get any idea of what's really going on?

I'm sure it all does come together nicely, but since the first TPB left me uncertain, I wasn't sure if investing in ten, twelve of them was worth finding out if the overall story was good or not...
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J. Agamemnon said:
The second and third tpb's are pretty similar to the first one. It's mostly recruiting and yes, some of the character end up meeting each other. That's as far as I've gotten though, but it does seem like there is a "bigger picture" at hand than anyone is comprehending in the book.
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Joe Kalicki said:
I'm reading the second 100 Bullets trade now. I had the first three since about 2000-2001, but haven't read them since and never read further. It's a good series, but Azzarello's dialogue sucks pretty bad.

It does tie together.
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After awhile it breaks away from the stories with the briefcase and bullets.

And becomes more bigger picture and everything starting to tie-in.


I read the most of it over a week or so.


It is a very good series.
 
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Alright, now that I've read this entire thread and basically spoiled the series for myself, I've been convinced, and I'm going to get the rest of the trades. Good thing I'll be working this summer so I can pay for it later...
 
Holy crap! This is SO bad-***, it's not funny.

An extremely committed 100 Bullets fan has assembled ALL the flashback panels related to the "Atlantic City incident", in chronological order, as reliably as possible, based on the available information. The final result is made up of dialog and images composited from the various flashback scenes. This is serious dedication, people.

Check it out: http://www.100bullets.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/issues/atlanticcity/ac01.htm

Click on each page to move to the next one.

Man, this stuff practically makes DIrishB look lazy, with his own timelines.

Here are the person's additional notes:
Assembling an accurate timeline of the events revealed in Atlantic City so far was less easy than it first appeared. In certain scenes, the same images were used repeatedly, but the characters depicted were supposed to be different. in Milo's flashback, he is talking to Cole about his apparent apprehensions. In Wylie's flashback, he too is talking to Cole, at exactly the same time as Milo is supposed to be, and is in fact, drawn as the same character. Working from the dialogue, it is clear that Cole speaks to Milo first. Although several key moments take place in their exchange, for the purpose of this chronology the dialogue has been transposed to an earlier part of the narrative. Some frames have been resized and recut to replace sections where only the dialogue is "heard", over up-to-date images. Cole's flashback is silent. As the only Minuteman revealed at that point, there is no-one to interact with. In addition, the sequence was coloured by Grant Goleash, using orange hues, rather than the blue tones favoured by Trish Mulvihill, who coloured every other sequence. For these reasons, all but the final three frames of this sequence have been omitted, as has the end of Milo's flashback, where the real world starts to seep back in.

There are some minor inconsistencies, but without getting Eduardo Risso to redraw the entire scene, this is as accurate a chronology as I can manage, up to the events of "Punch Line", which added some more meat to the bones.​

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And on a different note, are there enough people who read this series on UC to justify choosing 100 Bullets as the subject for a future round of Dreamcasting?
 
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I've read the first three volumes so far. I'm in love. If I had all of the volumes here with me right now, I'd probably read them all through in one go. That's how excited I am about this series right now.
 
compound said:
Holy crap! This is SO bad-***, it's not funny.

An extremely committed 100 Bullets fan has assembled ALL the flashback panels related to the "Atlantic City incident", in chronological order, as reliably as possible, based on the available information. The final result is made up of dialog and images composited from the various flashback scenes. This is serious dedication, people.

Check it out: http://www.100bullets.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/issues/atlanticcity/ac01.htm

Click on each page to move to the next one.

Man, this stuff practically makes DIrishB look lazy, with his own timelines.

Here are the person's additional notes:
Assembling an accurate timeline of the events revealed in Atlantic City so far was less easy than it first appeared. In certain scenes, the same images were used repeatedly, but the characters depicted were supposed to be different. in Milo's flashback, he is talking to Cole about his apparent apprehensions. In Wylie's flashback, he too is talking to Cole, at exactly the same time as Milo is supposed to be, and is in fact, drawn as the same character. Working from the dialogue, it is clear that Cole speaks to Milo first. Although several key moments take place in their exchange, for the purpose of this chronology the dialogue has been transposed to an earlier part of the narrative. Some frames have been resized and recut to replace sections where only the dialogue is "heard", over up-to-date images. Cole's flashback is silent. As the only Minuteman revealed at that point, there is no-one to interact with. In addition, the sequence was coloured by Grant Goleash, using orange hues, rather than the blue tones favoured by Trish Mulvihill, who coloured every other sequence. For these reasons, all but the final three frames of this sequence have been omitted, as has the end of Milo's flashback, where the real world starts to seep back in.

There are some minor inconsistencies, but without getting Eduardo Risso to redraw the entire scene, this is as accurate a chronology as I can manage, up to the events of "Punch Line", which added some more meat to the bones.​

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And on a different note, are there enough people who read this series on UC to justify choosing 100 Bullets as the subject for a future round of Dreamcasting?
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:rockon:

HOLY ****!

Compound is still bringing the hot jams from beyond the grave!

I need to catch up on this book.
 
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