100 Bullets Vol. 5: Counterfifth Detective

by Brian Azzarello

Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

741.5973

Series

100 Bullets (31-36)

Tags

comics, humour, calvin and hobbes, family, childhood, imagination

Genres

Publication

DC Comics (2003), Paperback

Description

Reprinting issues #31-36 of the Harvey and Eisner Award-winning VERTIGO series, 100 BULLETS- THE COUNTERFIFTH DETECTIVE brings to light another chapter in the story of Agent Graves and the remnants of his old outfit the Minutemen. In this fifth suggested for mature readers trade paperback collection by acclaimed writer Brian Azzarello (HELLBLAZER, BATMAN/DEATHBLOW- AFTER THE FIRE), featuring art by Eduardo Risso (BATMAN- GOTHAM KNIGHTS) and a new cover by Dave Johnson, Agent Graves presents his trademark attache case containing a gun and 100 untraceable bullets to Milo Garret - a small-time private dick who's just gotten out of the hospital after losing an argument with his car's windshield. With his face covered in bandages, Milo has become an invisible man in more ways than one. As his latest case draws him into the shadowy world of the Trust, he's forced to confront the blank space that is his past and figure out what it has to do with the attache case he's holding in the present... and do it before what he doesn't know ends up finishing the job that the windshield started.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member dr_zirk
The fifth volume of 100 Bullets consolidates the best strengths of previous installments while delivering a consistent narrative that is not completely dependent on the larger mythology of the series. This chapter, entitled "The Counterfifth Detective", is fully derivative of noir fiction clichés,
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 but this time Brian Azzarello manages to generate some really interesting riffs on those familiar ideas, all without losing sight of what is truly original and interesting about his own oeuvre. And Eduardo Risso once again finds a way to outshine himself, delivering some of the best artwork yet seen in this series. Overall, the best volume of the collected 100 Bullets to date.
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LibraryThing member jawalter
Easily my favorite of what I've read so far in this series. A gripping noir tale that just happens to include an attache case full of untraceable bullets. As in all good hard-boiled detective fiction, the case is little more than a starting point, virtually irrelevant. It's merely there to get our
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 hero on to the real case, which is really only a placeholder for what the story itself is actually about: the real identity of Milo. And as self-contained as the story is, the brilliance of Azzarello's work here shines through in the way that the narrative threads from the larger story are so effortlessly woven into Milo's smaller story. Graves, the Trust, the Minutemen, Croatoa ... all are brought in totally unobtrusively, yet all are utterly vital.
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LibraryThing member RalphLagana
100 Bullets continues to deliver the goods, just not a well as it did in the previous volumes. This hard-boiled, pulp story ran too long for this reader. Still, if I had the option, I'd have given this story 3.5.

LibraryThing member TobinElliott
This time around, we're treated to a single, long-running storyline. But, as has been the case with the previous four installments, it's uniformly excellent, and I truly believe that Eduardo Risso is only getting better and better with not just the art, but panel layout and sheer storytelling
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 ability. And Azzarello's writing is, as usual, top notch.

There's going to be a point, I'm sure, where I'm just going to be tempted to write one of these reviews as...

Blah blah blah amazing art blah blah blah amazing story blah blah blah amazing series.

Because, quite frankly, this is a series that has me running out of superlatives to describe it.
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Awards

Wizard Magazine's Top 100 Graphic Novels of the Past 20 Years (24)

Language

English

Physical description

144 p.; 10 inches

ISBN

1563899485 / 9781563899485

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