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100 Bullets, Vol. 2: Split Second Chance by Eduardo Risso, Brian Azzarello

wesleyboy's review against another edition

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4.0

The plot thickens…

modkuraika's review against another edition

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4.0

I enjoy the anthology aspect to the series, as the varying tales help refresh the reader in-between the longer stories.

helpfulsnowman's review against another edition

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2.0

Why does the briefcase have 100 bullets? That seems like way more than necessary. I mean, I'm no marksman, but I think I could probably manage in, I dunno, 70 bullets?

tobin_elliott's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Gorgeous art, intriguing story, and it's just getting deeper. Amazing series.

justiceofkalr's review against another edition

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3.0

Only story I didn't really care for out of all the ones in this volume was the first about the con man. The rest were good to excellent. The one about the waitress was especially good in a horrible kind of way because it's a reminder that sometimes evil is closer to home than we think. There's some stuff going on with the briefcase man, Graves, and his maybe assistant Shepard. Which is incredibly unclear, but that's kind of the point. Secret organization and all that. Definitely enjoying this series more than the first time I tried to read it.

barrybonifay's review

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challenging tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

itkovian_books's review against another edition

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2.0

Meh. I thought the first volume of the graphic novel showed promise, even though I wasn't a fan of the art style. The series certainly has an interesting concept of exploring what people would do if suddenly given 100 untraceable bullets that would lead to no consequences. However, the stories within this volume weren't as interesting as in the first one, and the hyper-sexualized depictions of almost every female character got on my nerves. My local library has several of these, so maybe I'll give the third volume a chance to see if it gets better--I really do like that initial concept--but this one just wasn't very interesting.

Rating: 4/10

oneangrylibrarian's review against another edition

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3.0

While better than the first one, volume two seemed to be a bit more confusing and rushed. There are almost too many characters to list and each has a personal story. The problem being that the stories are rushed, often anti-climatic, and it does not leave the reader necessarily wanting more. It is not a bad series. It just has many rough edges that were never polished.

crookedtreehouse's review against another edition

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2.0

I think this volume is best summed up by the fact that its introduction is by Howard Chaykin, who hasn't done anything interesting but draw hosiery in about forty years.

A vague outline of a plot is introduced in this volume, and the mystery behind who Agent Graves is and what he's hoping to accomplish with his 100 untraceable bullets scenarios starts to unfold. The problem is that all of the characters are garbage. There's no one likable or believable. Like most late 90s/turn of the century noir, the point was to be shocking. So characters are all racists, pedophiles, and murderers. You learn that even most of the people being given the guns were terrible people.

My "Fuck This Comic" moment came during the issue when Graves arrives in a restaurant and slowly explains to a server about how her daughter got AIDS by being a heroin addicted prostitute because her father started molesting her when he was seven. The pacing sucked. The dialogue was so far over-the-top, it was actually orbiting a different story. The humanity was completely absent. It was the kind of lazy "gritty" writing that, once you hit twenty, you should be able to identify as Bullshit Schlock.

I like Azzarello's writing from the last few years, but, man oh man, has he come a long way since this garbage. The next volume won him an Eisner, so I'm going to read it to see if it somehow magically became readable at that point.

I don't recommend this to anyone with an ear for dialogue or an eye for plot. I do recommend it if you think Frank Miller's 21st century output was compelling, or if you're a sucker for a Howard Chaykin story.

flowsthead's review against another edition

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3.0

Note: 3 stars for series, not individual volumes