A police officer on Christmas duty and a meta-narrative about Graves and his briefcase. Lee Dolan, a bartender and a drunk, is shown the person who falsely framed him as a child pornographer. Dizzy Cordova, the first "beneficiary" (that we see - the series implies that there have been several in the past), is in a bad place, coming to terms with life after the murders of her baby son and gang-leader husband. More importantly, it brought together a little-known American writer called Brian Azzarello and an equally little-known Argentinian artist called Eduardo Risso.ġ00 Bullets begins in deceptively episodic fashion, each issue following a recipient of a briefcase from the ominously-named Agent Graves. This mini-series took a little-known DC Universe character and tossed him into a dark and bloody caper involving Al Capone’s money. Even as publishers such as Vertigo, Wildstorm and Image Comics explored the darker alleyways of the medium, it wasn’t until 1998’s 4-part mini-series Jonny Double that the stage was set for a definitive comic noir series. Even the earlier ventures, until Frank Miller’s unapologetically hard-boiled Sin City, tended to the caricature rather than the grim realism that spilled from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s fiction. Hard-boiled noir was not a genre explored with any seriousness in the 90's.
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