100 bullets

100 Bullets is the name of a comic series that began in 1999 and ended in 2009 , conceived and written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Eduardo Risso . It contains 100 individual issues and tells the story of the Minutemen , a group of specially trained contract killers who, after betrayal by their former client, the conspiratorial organization Trust , retaliated in the form of their former leader, the shady agent Graves. The name of the series comes from the fact that in individual stories Agent Graves regularly visits people who have been treated unfairly by life. He gives them the opportunity to take revenge on those guilty of their misfortune by means of an attaché with a pistol inside, the eponymous 100 bullets and "irrefutable evidence" without having to fear criminal prosecution from official sources.

One story in the series won one of the coveted Eisner Awards in 2002, as well as a Harvey Award . In the USA the series is published by Vertigo , an imprint of DC Comics , in a total of 13 volumes. In Germany, Panini presented all volumes in translation.

style

Both the writing style and the graphic design of 100 Bullets are close to the genres Noir and Pulp : The stories are morally ambivalent and are staged in a realistic and gloomy way. Accordingly, almost all characters are flawed, turn out to be multiple murderers and prefer to pursue their own goals. The graphic representation is extremely brutal in places and does not shy away from violent images.

The series turns out to be influenced by many classics of the genre. In the film sector, these include Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs , Bryan Singers The Usual Suspects , Guy Ritchie's Jack, Dame, König, graas and Paul Thomas Anderson's Last Exit Reno . In terms of literature, authors such as Elmore Leonard , Eddie Bunker , Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler can be cited.

The realistic use of regional dialects or slangs used by Brian Azzarello is also noteworthy . The characters often use metaphorical stylistic devices to point out facts that go beyond the concrete situation. The same means is often used to receive remarks reproduced in the off as commentary for situations that are spatially and factually separated and only represented graphically.

Single volumes

The total of 100 individual issues (plus the short story "Silencer Night", which was initially published in a Vertigo themed volume) are summarized in 13 anthologies containing between five and twelve individual issues. Each volume contains one or more stories ( story arc ), which in turn extend over one to twelve issues. Typically, the title of each anthology contains a reference to the volume number ( The Counter fifth Detective, for example, is the name of the fifth volume, Strynch nine Lives is the title of the ninth). A separate cover was created for each of the individual volumes, on which Agent Graves is always more or less easy to find. In addition to the covers of the individual issues, each volume was given a specially written introduction, written by well-known comic and / or crime writers. Finally, volumes twelve and thirteen are introduced by Eduardo Risso and Brian Azzarello.

Volume number	Title (year of publication)	German title (year of publication)	ISBN English / German	Included individual issues (number)
1	First Shot, Last Call (2000)	The First Shot, The Last Round (2007)	ISBN 1-56389-645-1 / ISBN 3-86607-358-5	Includes "100 Bullets" (1–3), "Shot, Water Back" (4–5) and "Silencer Night" (-).
2	Split Second Chance (2001)	The Second Chance (2008)	ISBN 1-56389-711-3 / ISBN 3-86607-491-3	Contains "Short Con, Long Odds" (6–7), "Day, Hour, Minute… Man" (8), "The Right Ear, Left in the Cold" (9-10), "Heartbreak Sunnyside Up" (11 ) and "Parlez Kung Vous" (12-14).
3	Hang up on the Hang Low (2001)	All Good Things (2008)	ISBN 1-56389-855-1 / ISBN 3-86607-626-6	Contains "Hang Up on the Hang Low" (15-18) and "Epilogue For a Road Dog" (19).
4th	A Foregone Tomorrow (2002)	Served off live longer (2009)	ISBN 1-56389-827-6 / ISBN 3-86607-728-9	Contains "The Mimic" (20), "Sell Fish and Out to Sea" (21-22), "Red Prince Blues" (23-25), "Mr. Branch and the Family Tree" (26), "Idol Chatter "(27) and" ¡Contrabandolero! " (28-30).
5	The Counterfifth Detective (2003)	You Shall Not Kill (2009)	ISBN 1-56389-855-1 / ISBN 3-86607-764-5	Includes "The Counterfifth Detective" (31-36).
6th	Six Feet Under The Gun (2003)	Six in the Red Circle (2007)	ISBN 1-56389-996-5 / ISBN 3-86607-359-3	Contains "On Accidental Purpose" (37), "Cole Burns' Slow Hand" (38), "Ambition's Audition" (39), "Night of the Payday" (40), "A Crash" (41) and "Point Off the Edge "(42).
7th	Samurai (2004)	Samurai (2007)	ISBN 1-4012-0189-X / ISBN 3-86607-490-5	Contains "Chill in the Oven" (43–46) and "In Stinked" (47–49).
8th	The Hard Way (2005)	Death Rides a Roller Coaster (2009)	ISBN 1-4012-0490-2 / ISBN 3-86607-596-0	Contains "Prey for Reign" (50), "Wylie Runs the Voodoo Down" (51-57) and "Coda Smoke" (58).
9	Strychnine Lives (2006)	The Cat Has Nine Lives (2008)	ISBN 1-4012-0928-9 / ISBN 3-86607-627-4	Contains "The Calm" (59), "Staring at the Son" (60-63), "The Dive" (64), "New Tricks" (65-66) and "Love Let Her" (67).
10	Decayed (2007)	Decadent (2009)	ISBN 1-4012-0998-X / ISBN 3-86607-765-3	Includes "Sleep, Walker" (68-69), "A Wake" (70-74) and "Amorality Play" (75).
11	Once Upon a Crime (2007)	The 101 of Power (2010)	ISBN 1-4012-1315-4 / ISBN 3-86607-916-8	Contains "Punch Line" (76-79), "A Split Decision" (80) and "Tarantula" (81-83).
12	Dirty (2008)	The Dirty Dozen (2011)	ISBN 1-4012-1939-X / ISBN 3-86201-173-9	Contains "The Lady Tonight" (84), "Red Lions" (85), "Rain in Vain" (86), "The Blister" (87) and "My Lonely Friend" (88).
13	Wilt (2009)	Friday (2011)	ISBN 1-4012-2287-0 / ISBN 3-86201-181-X	Includes "100 Bullets, Chapters 1-12" (89-100).

action

The plot consists of a total of 45 story arcs (56, if one ignores the chapter division in the last volume and understands the different numbers as single stories, as suggested by the different titles at least). In many stories, in addition to the main plot, there is also a side story, which often addresses poverty, drug trafficking and crime in large American cities, but leaves the actual story largely untouched. Almost all story arcs focus on one or more minutes and / or members of the trust .

First shot, last call

The introduction was written by Jim Steranko .

• 100 Bullets (1–3): Isabelle "Dizzy" Cordova is released from prison and approached by Agent Graves. She receives the attaché from him and thus the opportunity to take revenge on two corrupt police officers who have their family on their conscience. She meets the dodgy Mr. Shepherd, whom she ends up following.
• Shot, Water Back (4–5): Former restaurant owner Lee Dolan is approached by Agent Graves in a bar. He offers him evidence of who is responsible for his unjustified charge of possession of child pornography and gives him the attaché. Dolan then confronts the accused businesswoman Megan Dietrich and threatens her, but is shot by her.
• Silencer Night (-): Mrs. Bugg enters a police station at Christmas and confesses in front of officers the murder of her former landlord, Thomas Wright. Her son Donny was damaged by the poisonous paint on the walls of the apartment, which her landlord knew about. Agent Graves gave her the attaché, allowing her retaliation. However, after reviewing the files, the officials did not believe her and sent her home.

Split second chance

Howard Chaykin wrote the introductory words .

• Short Con, Long Odds (6-7): Gambler Chucky spent seven years in jail for being drunk and driving an accident. He receives a visit from Agent Graves, who reveals to him that his childhood friend Pony was actually behind the wheel and that he was wrongly convicted. He receives the attaché and thus the opportunity to settle accounts with him.
• Day, Hour, Minute ... Man (8): Agent Graves meets former minuteman Lono in a Miami café. They discuss past events in Atlantic City that led to the breakup of the Minutemen . Graves asks Lono to work for him again, which Lono refuses.
• The Right Ear, Left in the Cold (9-10): The ice cream seller Cole Burns is approached by Agent Graves: His grandmother was killed in a fire that the local underworld great Goldy had started. During the settlement with him, Burns is awakened by the expression "Croatoa" uttered by a musician who was present and remembers his past as a minuteman . He is recruited by Graves again and leaves his girlfriend Sasha for it.
• Heartbreak, Sunnyside Up (11): Agent Graves tells the waitress Jenny Roach that her daughter, who escaped years ago, is dead. She learns that her husband Phil abused their daughter, driving her homeless and criminal. She receives the attaché and shoots Phil.
• Parlez Kung Vous (12-14): Mr. Shepherd sends Dizzy Cordova to Paris to meet a certain Mr. Branch. Branch, an American expat and former journalist, also received a suitcase from Graves years ago. He did not kill the person accused, but began to research Graves and his organization. Dizzy and the reader are provided with some background on the Minutemen and an organization called the Trust .

Hang up on the hang low

The opening words are from Jim Lee . The first story won an Eisner Award in 2002.

• Hang Up on the Hang Low (15-18): Agent Graves meets the colored Louis "Loop" Hughes and gives him the attaché and whereabouts of his father Curtis, who left his family years ago. Louis confronts his father, but the two find their way back together and collect protection money for the Mafioso Nino Rego. Graves visits Curtis, the two talk to each other. Curtis worked for Graves years ago but couldn't become a Minuteman because of the color of his skin . Graves gives him an attaché and tries to get him to remove a Trust member, but Curtis refuses. After problems with claiming protection money, Curtis is killed by Rego before Loop manages to kill Rego and his bodyguard.
• Epilogue for a Road Dog (19): Loop is visited by his cousin Carlos and his girlfriend Sophie from Miami. You're on the run with $ 2,000,000. Carlos accompanies Loop to Curtis' apartment, where Agent Graves is waiting for her. Graves makes Loop the same offer as Curtis before; Loop refuses. Lono ambushes Carlos, who stole the money from him in Miami after receiving it from Graves earlier. He kills Carlos, but spares Loop after he learns that Carlos is Curtis' son. Loop is arrested at his father's funeral for the murder of Rego's bodyguard after police get a tip from Graves.

A Foregone Tomorrow

Volume four is introduced by Bill Savage .

• The Mimic (20): Benito Medici, the son of a member of the Trust , meets with Mr. Shepherd in Central Park, New York. This turns out to be a former minuteman and current protector of the trust . They discuss Grave's return and his motives. They talk about the Minutemen who were previously thought to be dead.
• Sell ​​Fish and Out to Sea (21-22): Drug addict Jack Daw tells his buddy Mickey about his last day. He received an attaché from Agent Graves and in the hours that followed he lost his job and girlfriend. His family is turning away from him more and more, his father has committed suicide. At the end of the story, Mickey is horrified to find that Daw shot some more drug buddies with Graves pistol. It can be seen that the photo of the person responsible for Jack's condition in the suitcase represents Daw himself.
• Red Prince Blues (23–25): The Trust's 13 families meet in Atlantic City to discuss how to proceed. Benito's father Augustus Medici occupies a prominent position. Benito himself clashes with Hank Kowalski, a notorious gambler who needs money to pay for his wife's hospitalization. During the meeting, Daniel Peres, another member of the trust , is contacted by Agent Graves and leaves the congregation. At the end of his meeting with Graves, Cole Burns kills Peres as a message for the rest of the Trust's families .
• Mr. Branch and the Family Tree (26): In Paris, Mr. Branch takes Echo Memoria, who appears as a prostitute, to his room. When she notices his bulletin board full of notes and hints, he reports to her in English, assuming that she only speaks French, of the results of his previous research on the Trust . After finishing her "duties" it becomes clear that she speaks perfect English and that Branch understood it very well.
• Idol Chatter (27): During a visit to the hospital, Agent Graves is approached by a former baseball star. Forty years ago his wife, a famous film actress and singer, was murdered by her even higher-ranking lover, although it looked like suicide. Graves gave him the attaché to retaliate. The story is recognizable based on the historical figures Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe .
• ¡Contrabandolero! (28-30): Former Minuteman Wylie Times works as a sleeper at a gas station in El Paso. He receives a visit from Mr. Shepherd and Dizzy Cordova, but Shepherd does not manage to wake up Times because he does not know the required expression. Times himself is drawn into a smuggling of parrots across the Mexican border by two mafiosi. He meets a man named Mik Kuchenko, called Coochie, who also seems to work for Shepherd.

The Counterfifth Detective

The introduction to volume five was penned by Rob Elder .

• The Counterfifth Detective (31-36): Private detective Milo Garret, who is bandaged on his face in an accident, receives a visit from Agent Graves at the hospital. He explains to him that his accident was not an accident and presents his client Karl Reynolds as guilty. When Milo visits him, he finds him already shot by Lono. He tries to find the target of his last commission, Monroe Tannenbaum, and learns from him of the existence of a mysterious painting that was stolen from a private collection. During his research, Garret meets Megan Dietrich and Echo Memoria, who are both also after the painting. When he discovered it at Dietrich's, he was awakened by the expression "Croatoa" painted on it and recognized himself as a former Minuteman . Visited again by Graves, however, he decides not to return and wants to continue working as a private detective. After Dietrich's painting is stolen again, Garret goes through his previous notes and memories about his identity and the case when he receives a visit from Lono. Because of his bandages, Lono does not recognize his former colleague and shoots him after a brief argument before he disappears with Echo Memoria and the painting.

Six Feet Under The Gun

Greg Rucka wrote the short introduction to volume six.

• On Accidental Purpose (37): Dizzy Cordova briefly visits her home block in Chicago. Meanwhile, Agent Graves meets with Mr. Shepherd in a pub. They discuss their plans with Dizzy and talk about Lono's activities. Graves would like to see Lono eliminated, Loop Hughes is to take the place of the murdered Milo Garret. Shepherd wants to take action against the Vasco family, another member of the trust . Both come to an agreement.
• Cole Burns Slow Hand (38): Cole Burns visits his former love Sasha, who he has not seen for over a year, and tries to win her over again. She rejects his advances and throws him out of her apartment without further ado. Meanwhile, a robbery takes place in the bar below Sasha's apartment, in which one of the perpetrators is masked. Thereupon he threatens the assembled guests with death. Burns accidentally visits the bar after being kicked out and kills the gangsters en passant .
• Ambition's Audition (39): Shepherd has a meeting with Augustus Medici in Little Havana. His son Benito is also there. When some gunmen enter the scene, Shepherd suspects an attempted attack on Augustus and seems to drive them away with his presence. When he realizes a short time later that the attack is no longer Augustus, but his son, he only just manages to thwart the attempted murder by shooting down the hired man.
• Night of the Payday, 40: Lono meets with Shepherd, who is supplying him with a contract killing of a man in Raleigh, North Carolina. After completing the job, Shepherd in Pittsburgh pays him the agreed money, indicating that they have further plans with Lono. Back at the hotel, Lono and Echo Memoria are harassed by police officers: The money paid out comes from a robbery. Memoria is arrested while on the run at the airport, Lono is gunned down by police in the hotel lobby and seriously injured.
• A Crash (41): Agent Graves has a meeting with three heads of the Trust : Javier Vasco, Fulvio Carlito and Helena Kotias worry about the growing power of the Medici family. After the murder of Daniel Peres, his property was divided up among the families, so that now 12 families decide on the fate of the trust . The even number means that definitive resolutions are no longer guaranteed. They ask Graves to help them get rid of the Medicis and in return promise to reinstate the Minutemen . Graves assures them to look into their offer.
• Point Off the Edge (42): Wylie Times receives a visit from Agent Graves and accepts an attaché from him. When he has to start his work shift, a man and a woman enter the bar after a short time. The woman gives Times the hidden tip that the man wants to kill her, whereupon Times tries to prevent his onward journey. In a subsequent scuffle, Times is almost shot before the woman manages to overpower and shoot her tormentor. Times leaves the bar, gets into the car with Graves and opens the attaché. The photo of his target person is Shepherd, whom the not yet awakened Times can only faintly remember.

samurai

The introductory words of the seventh volume are from Carlos Trillo .

• Chill in the Oven (43–46): Loop Hughes landed in prison for the murder of Rego's bodyguard. Here he has allied himself with Eerie, a white racist whom he is helping to prepare for his exam for the General Educational Development Test , and his cell mate Cotton. Opposite are inmate Nine Train and the guard Sergeant Dirtz, who are ill-disposed towards him. When the recovered Lono is brought in after his arrest, he rises rapidly in the prison hierarchy, which worries Hughes. Lono soon receives a visit from Shepherd, who demands that Loop be trained as a minuteman on behalf of Graves after the murder of Garrett . After an initial rejection, Lono agrees. During an incident at the prison outpatient department, Nine Train is stabbed to death by Loop, and Dirtz is crippled by Lono. Lono and Hughes are then placed in solitary confinement, albeit in neighboring cells.
• In Stinked (47-49): Jack Daw and Mickey are on their way to Atlantic City, where, in Daw's opinion, the key to his life so far lies. They stop at Mickey's cousin Jungle Garvey Metcalf, who runs a zoo with his wife, Wendy. Daw and Mickey are shown through the zoo, especially a tiger makes a lasting impression on Jack. As a side business, Garvey runs a kind of private hunting company together with state trooper Billy, in which individual animals are released for shooting for money. Some Philadelphia mafiosi made use of this possibility that evening. When they choose the tiger as their trophy, there is a conflict with Jack. Daw shoots one of the mafiosi and the situation escalates. In the end, the Mafiosi are dead and are groomed by Garvey and Billy as victims of a police operation. Mickey and Jack go their separate ways, he continues on his way to Atlantic City alone.

The hard way

Jason Starr wrote the introduction to The Hard Way .

• Prey For Reign (50): In a flashback to a diamond theft, Victor Ray tells his buddies Bass, Sheila and Harley the story of America's true origins in a bar and reveals the beginnings, motivation and power of the Trust while they wait for the injured gang member Perry. As the latter approaches, a shootout breaks out with the previous owners of the diamonds, only Bass and Victor survive. The latter single-handedly shoots the opposing gang down and turns out to be a Minuteman who was awakened by Graves before Cole Burns .
• Wylie Runs the Voodoo Down (51–57): It tells the story of the Wylie Times revival. During his previous time as Minuteman , Shepherd ordered him to shoot his lover, Rose Madrid, after she opposed the Trust's rules and tried to take action against the Medici house. Times did his job, but from then on harbored a deep grudge against Shepherd. After receiving the keyword "Croatoa" from the trumpeter Gabe, who was instructed by Graves, he gradually became aware of his past. With the help of his regained abilities, he first shoots two rednecks who want to kill him as a witness to a murder they have committed. The gift close to Wylie dies. Then he moves in search of Shepherd against the New Orleans-based house belonging to the Trust in Madrid and shoots his head, Anwar, Rose's father. He captures Shepherd, but ends up sparing him. He leaves New Orleans with Dizzy Cordova and Shepherd.
• Coda Smoke (58): During a stopover at a gas station, Shepherd and Wylie recapitulates Graves' previous moves and expresses doubts about his plan. He learns the key word to wake up the Minuteman from the Times just as Dizzy is nearby. This had previously rejected a proposal from Graves to move on with him and Burns. The expression she overheard makes her shoot at Shepherd as if in a trance, who then leaves the scene dying. With his last call to Lono, he appoints Lono to be his successor as protector of the Trust and instructs him to leave the prison together with the Loop he has trained.

Strychnine Lives

The introduction to volume nine was written by Manuel Ramos .

• The Calm (59): Back from prison, Loop and Lono reach Chicago, where they track down Victor Ray. This stays with his lover Christine in their apartment. Lono and Loop report on Shepherd's death and the plans he left with Loops personal effects. They are discussing the plan to let one family in the trust gain sovereignty over all others. Victor agrees to help them and the three of them leave Chicago.
• Staring at the Son (60–63): Megan Dietrich arrives in Miami, where she wants to meet Augustus Medici and Mr. Branch, whom she has called in from Paris. It never comes to that: she has a brief encounter with Cole Burns before going out for a drink with Benito before dinner. Mr. Branch is also intercepted by Cole Burns before his appointment. He would like to send him back to Europe to track down Echo Memoria, who is still in possession of the picture last stolen from Dietrich. Dietrich has dinner together with the Medicis. They discuss the dangerousness of Graves and the possibility of a collaboration with Vasco aimed at weakening the Medici. When Benito escorts Megan back to her hotel, Graves suddenly appears and talks to Augustus. The two subliminally exchange threats. Mr. Branch, who is already on his way to Europe on behalf of Burns, changes his mind at the last minute and tries instead to track down Dizzy Cardova.
• The Dive (64): Agent Graves meets Jack Daw again in Atlantic City, who struggles with private boxing matches. Daw wants to give Graves back to the attaché, which Graves refuses several times, even when Daw threatens the life of the security guard of a bar visited by Graves. Graves scolds Jack for a weakling, and Jack has to leave without having achieved anything.
• New Tricks (65 - 66): Lono tortures Trust member Fulvio Carlito to death after killing his sons. Carlito admits that he, along with the Vasco and Kotias families, was responsible for the attack on Augustus and Benito Medici in Little Havana. Lono then meets with Augustus and reports back, but recommends that he leave it with the elimination of the Carlito house and show mercy towards the other two families in order to further consolidate his position. Medici agrees. Meanwhile, Loop and Victor attack the life of Megan Dietrich and seriously injure her.
• Love Let Her (67): A narrator who cannot be attributed speaks about his love for a woman who belongs to another. In Juarez, Mexico, Benito Medici and Mr. Branch are looking for Dizzy Cordova. Benito meets Coochie and buys his services. Together with Branch, he leads them to Wylie Times and Dizzy, who live in the desert.

Decayed

Darwyn Cooke wrote the introduction to Decayed .

• Sleep, Walker (68–69): Axel Nagel, the head of the Nagel family, meets Javier Vasco in an elevator. During the conversation it becomes clear that Vasco Nagel is pushing to commit suicide. In retrospect it can be seen that Nagel played a key figure in the installation of Philip Graves as head of the Minutemen and was able to enforce this against the concerns of the then trust protector Mr. Shore together with Megan's Dietrich's father Roland. Meanwhile, Megan Dietrich is asked to meet Augustus. He convinces her not to take revenge for the failed attempt on her life. At the same time, Jack Daw is awakened in an arranged wrestling match with Lono by means of the keyword tattooed on Lono's stomach and turns out to be the sixth Minuteman .
• A Wake (70-74): In Cleveland, Agent Graves gives Ronnie Rome, who works for the local underworld great Mimo Pallidino, the attaché with a picture of his brother Remie in it. Remie is suspected of stealing products from a butcher shop in which Ronnie's employer is involved, something Ronnie has tried repeatedly to prevent. As it turns out, it's not Ronnie who is responsible, but one of his colleagues. They kill the thieves, Remie turns out to be a Minuteman and ends up joining Graves and Burns. Meanwhile, on behalf of Augustus Medici, Lono is driving the two heirs of Axel Nagel to their death, after Medici had previously assured all the families at a meeting that Haus Nagel would be preserved and that the responsibility of his two children Anna and Lars would be transferred.
• Amorality Play (75): The young restaurant employee Dustin receives the attaché from Agent Graves with the opportunity to take revenge on the woman who is responsible for his miserable situation. Hesitantly sitting on a bench, Lono soon joins him and paints him the consequences of his possible decision to retaliate, but ultimately refrains from any moral recommendation.

Once Upon a Crime

Tom Fontana contributed the introduction to volume eleven .

• Punch Line (76–79): Lono, Loop Hughes, Victor Ray and Jack Daw are on their way to the Mexican border. They are looking for the group around Wylie Times, who live with Benito Medici, Mr. Branch and Dizzy Cordova on an abandoned farm near the border. Times and Dizzy are also after Graves and his two followers Cole Burns and Remi Rome. After another house with Mia Simone is destroyed, Graves ensures that Ray from Lono's group overflows to them. He first visits the Times, convinces him to comply with Grave's request for a meeting and stays behind with the others while Wylie makes his way to the border. After a short conversation, he is accidentally shot by Remi before he can speak to Graves directly. After a brief scuffle, Ray forces Dizzy and Branch into his car and takes them to Graves. Benito remains unconscious.
• A split decision (80): In an abandoned warehouse, Graves has a conversation with Dizzy and finally brings her to his side: She becomes the first female minute (where) you are . Tension erupts between Ray, Rome and Burns over the death of Wylie Times. Cole leaves the hall together with Branch.
• Tarantula (81–83): Ronnie Rome is in Italy, looking for the painting "La Morte dil Cesare" stolen by Echo Memoria. He meets her without initially being able to pay the agreed price and receive the painting in exchange: Another group is interested in the picture. Memoria seems to be playing a double game, and only indirectly does Rome succeed in asserting himself as the sole interested party. Meanwhile, Graves and Dizzy Shepherd's dubious past unfolds during a conversation in New York before joining the Minutemen .

Dirty

Eduardo Risso , the chief draftsman, wrote the introduction to the penultimate volume in the series.

• The Lady Tonight (84): Sigmar Rhone, one of the heads of the family of the Trust and owner of several casinos and other entertainment venues, secretly meets with Kate, a confidante and bodyguard of Megan Dietrich. She tells him of the Medicis and Vascos striving for homogeneity within the trust . Immediately after the conversation, Victor Ray and Remi Rome appear at the site of the conspiratorial meeting and wipe out Rhone and his entire family.
• Red Lions (85): Lono reunites Benito with his father after his odyssey. Tensions arise with his new lover Megan Dietrich. Meanwhile, Lono is recognized during a sauna session by Carlos' friend Sophie, whom he raped several times during his settlement with Carlos. She takes revenge on him by showing him his vulnerability.
• Rain in Vain (86): Victor Ray drives to Aspen, Colorado, and kills two other heads of families of the Trust, Helene Kotias and Constance von Hagen . At the same time, he kills a white trash couple and frees their son Justin.
• The Blister (87): Startled by the increasing decimation of the Trust, Trust member Joan D'Arcy hires former minuteman Will Slaughter to put an end to Grave's campaign of revenge. At the same time, Remi Rome intrudes into one of their companies as their presumed whereabouts, but without being able to track them down.
• My Lonely Friend (88): Cole Burns and Mr. Branch are located in Atlantic City. While Burns goes to Ronnie Rome to get the painting Burns wanted from him, Branch, who is waiting alone on a bench, receives a visit from Echo Memoria. When Burns returns from meeting Ronnie, he finds Branch murdered.

Wilt

Author Brian Azzarello wrote the introduction to the last volume in the series.

• 100 Bullets: Chapter 1 - Corner of the Sky (89): A flashback shows the murder of Javier Vasco's father by Agent Graves, which enables Vasco to succeed him. A disaffected Cole Burns changes sides after Branch's death and joins Lono's group. In a side story, young Pippin is drawn into the gang wars in his neighborhood.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 2 - Lost in a Roman (90): Remi Rome is still looking for Joan D'Arcy to fulfill his murder assignment. Lono receives an order from Benito to get him a dead and a living Minuteman . Lono then orders Loop Hughes over the phone to kill Cole Burns, who has just joined them. Pippin takes up a gun and mistakenly murders a schoolmate.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 3 - Closer (91): In a flashback, Agent Graves, Javier Vasco and Augustus Medici seal an alliance within the Trust . Loop Hughes fails the attack on Cole Burns. The reactivated Will Slaughter shoots Abe Rothstein in New York on behalf of Joan D'Arcy, who provided Graves with information and attachés. Pippin's murder triggers unrest among the people in his neighborhood and puts his client under pressure.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 4 - Our Men in the Ravine (92): Jack Daw and Cole Burns drive into a remote forest to shoot Loop Hughes for his attempted murder. However, Daw lets him flee and knocks Burns out before he makes his way back alone with Burns' painting. Augustus Medici and Javier Vasco discuss the murder of Rothstein. Pippin is shot by one of his friends under pressure from his client.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 5 - Rooster (93): Augustus Medici is on the way to Javier Vasco with Lono to discuss how to proceed. Joan D'Arcy is attacked by Remi Rome in her villa. During the ensuing battle, Coop, the head of security, managed to severely wound Remi at the risk of his life, so that D'Arcy survived again.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 6 - Kill de Sac (94): After the murder of Rothstein, Agent Graves and Dizzy Cordova see Javier Vasco to demand an explanation. Augustus Medici and Lono also reach his villa. Lono attacks Dizzy, who is waiting outside, when he recognizes Shepherd's murderer. Graves discusses their old alliance with Vasco and Medici. You are trying to identify Rothstein's murderer.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 7 - Ducks (95): After a nightmare, Remi Rome wakes up in the hospital and discovers that his last job cost him both hands. Victor approaches his bed and takes him for a walk on the roof of the hospital. The men talk about Graves and his vengeance campaign. Finally, Remies commits suicide and falls from the hotel roof, just as his brother Ronnie is brought in by taxi after a traffic accident that he provoked, and rushes towards him.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 8 - Damaged Good (96): Lono kidnaps Dizzy Cordova from Javier's estate and piles her up to Miami to hand her over to Benito Medici. While driving, he makes phone calls to Agent Graves and Cole Burns. Graves demands the surrender of Cordova; Lono refuses. When he fulfills part of his assignment after his arrival with the Medici, Benito is so upset about the handling of the injured Dizzy that he shoots Lono.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 9 - Fearsomality Crisis (97): Lono escapes seriously injured from the Medicis estate in Miami. Meanwhile, Augustus Medici, Javier Vasco and Agent Graves in Atlantic City and Megan Dietrich, Tibo Vermeer and Joan D'Arcy in Ohama are making plans for the future of the Trust . Both agree that the civil war within the trust must end, but still require a victim. At the same time, Will Slaughter in Ohama and Victor Ray in Atlantic City mutually plan an assassination attempt on Vasco on behalf of D'Arcy and D'Arcy on behalf of Graves. A shot is fired.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 10 - Five Rook (ed) s (98): Javier Vasco has been shot. Graves calls Victor Ray back, although the number of Trust families is back to an even number . Loop Hughes and Cole Burns track down Jack Daw in a hotel where the stolen painting is located. Echo Memoria is also present and is shot dead by Burns for the murder of Mr. Branch. Ray also enters the room when Lono calls Loop. A shootout is imminent. Unnoticed by Lono, Will Slaughter also entered his room.
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 11 - Boots On (99): Spurred on by Lono by phone, the remaining Minutemen gather one last time and decide to storm the Medicis property. Lono, who - unnoticed by him - was spared by Slaughter, is planning the same; both also make their way to the Medici villa. On the estate, the remaining trust families decide on a new alliance in the presence of Agent Graves: Augustus retains his property, but loses his vote in the council. Vasco's property is not split up, but goes to Graves to regain control of the Minutemen . Thereupon Augustus installs his son in his rights in order to guarantee the Medicis a further vote in the trust .
• 100 Bullets: Chapter 12 - A House of Graves (100): With Augustus' resignation at the mercy of a threatened Medici hegemony, the remaining heads of families see themselves forced to murder Benito. The uninvolved Graves appoints Dizzy Cordova as the new leader of the Minutemen to solve the murder when the remaining Minutemen storm the property. Tibo Vermeer, Joan D'Arcy and Megan Dietrich are murdered by Burns, who dies in the process. Graves kills Medici and bends in the final shot of the sanction by the seriously injured agent Cordova, who threatens him with a pistol.

Characters

Much of the plot focuses on the conflict between two groups, with the trust families directing the fate of the United States on the one hand and their former mercenary minutemen on the other. In addition, there are a number of neutral figures that cannot initially be assigned to either of the two sides or that only join them in the course of the story.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander C. Irvine: 100 Bullets . In: Alastair Dougall (ed.): The Vertigo Encyclopedia . Dorling Kindersley, London 2008, 11-17. ISBN 0-7566-4122-5
2. ↑ List of winners of the Eisner Award 1988-2007 according to price categories
3. ↑ Homepage of the Harvey Awards with a list of the winners from 2002 ( Memento from February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Mclaughlin, Jeff (2005). Comics as Philosophy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-000-5 .

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