100 Bullets Vol. 2: Split Second Chance

This TPB collects a whopping nine issues (#6-#14!) of the Brian Azzarello/Eduardo Risso crime series with a ten-year run that is widely considered among the very best of the decade (there are thirteen trade paperbacks in the series). Azzarello explores themes of revenge, justice and moral ambiguity in the realistic, sometimes violent narrative. The mysterious Agent Graves is back, offering his attache case with the titular untraceable 100 bullets and a handgun. One issue shows his jarring visit to a night shift waitress with a missing daughter. Connections emerge as characters reappear in separate story arcs and Azzarello's master plot begins to unfold. I enjoyed this TPB enough to eagerly move on to Volume 3 and look forward to progressing through the series' full run.

This volume definitely redeems the previous one if you think volume 1 was nothing but build up or filler. New concepts are introduced and the bigger mystery starts. I knew 100 bullets had potential and I'm glad it didn't wait long to wow me.

I loved Vol 1 of this series, so I bought Vol 2, which I thought was kinda boring, Turned me off from getting Vol 3.

It is a great read can't wait to get the other volumes

Great story line.

Delivered as and when stated. Thank you

I was totally blown away by 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call. Most people think of comic books as mostly about superheroes and villains. Sure there's the rare serious titles that deal with more than just costumed heroes and out of this world situations, but outside of Miller's Sin City, there's not been another comic book to truly take a shot at creating a noir title that does the word honor. Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets series brings the world of Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler to the world of comic books, or should I say in this regard: the graphic novel.With the first volume, Azzarello quickly introduces the reader to his world of revenge, femme fatales and smoke-filled backrooms. He clearly establishes that the world of 100 Bullets is closer to the real world than Miller's Sin City. Where Miller goes the minimalist and overly simplistic route (in both artwork and storytelling) with his Sin City series, Azzarello bases his story in a world that looks so similar to the real world, but with a slight undercurrent of hyperrealism. With this second volume, Azzarello continues the basic theme of carte blanche revenge offered by the old and grizzly Agent Graves to what seem like a random group of people. It is later in the volume that we slowly get a new insight to who Agent Graves is and the secrets behind him and his actions. This revelation actually goes through a three-issue arc that ends the second half of the volume. The one story that really stood out was a stand-alone featuring Lilly Roach in "Heartbreak Sunnyside Up." It stood out not for Lilly taking Graves' offer of the briefcase and the gun, but in Azzarello's heartbreaking and brutal telling of a mother's love for her daughter and losing it in a way both shocking and terrible.100 Bullets, Split Second Chance marks the second volume in the ongoing series. It takes issues 6 through 14 and adds more mythology to the world Azzarello and Risso have built with the first volume. It's a thicker volume than First Shot, Last Call, but reads just as fast. I highly recommend that people who have read the first volume pick this one up. The previous one may have been Last Call, but this volume just served up a smooth, dangerous second round that would feel at home in anything Spillane, Cain, Chandler and Hammett call home.

When I first dipped into the world of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's "100 Bullets", I have to confess that I wasn't immediately taken. I had picked up the first volume a year ago based on the strong word of mouth and was pretty underwhelmed by what seemed to be little more than an assortment of slang-ridden short stories centering on revenge. I didn't dislike it, I just felt like maybe the hype was a bit too much.With "Split Second Chance," though, I'm starting to see where all the critical raves are coming from.The cover blurb on this drew me back in with the promise that things were going to start to be tied together into a larger narrative. And in fact, that's what happens. We re-enter the world introduced on the first volume, a world in which wronged people are given an opportunity to seek vengeance with an untraceable gun that allows them to operate above the law. But unlike the first volume, here we begin to see that these acts of vengeance are tied together, with hints of something much bigger than the seemingly one-off stories of the first volume. Secret organizations, shady characters, and some looming conspiracy. Azzarello doesn't lay all his cards out on the table, but offers just enough hints so that you want to find out more. Top notch work. I'll probably be catching up with this series now.

Another excellent collection of issues from the 100 Bullets series. 'Split Second Chance' not only boasts some superb individual stories, it also thickens the central plot of Azzarello and Risso's thrilling narrative. One gets the impression that the events depicted so far are but the slightest tip of a dark and mysterious ice berg. I can't wait to get my hands on the next selection of episodes.

Loving the 100 Bullets saga. I'd recommend this series to any fan of either comic books or crime fiction. The artwork is superb and the writing is dead on.

Possibly the most intriguing graphic novel series I have read in a long time. Thoroughly enjoyed every second reading this book.

Great read

Quelqu'un vient à vous avec un attaché case contenant un pistolet, 100 balles et un dossier donnant toutes les preuves de culpabilité de quelqu'un qui vous a fait du mal. Ce quelqu'un vous garantit que si vous faites usage du pistolet pour votre vengeance, la police vous laissera tranquille. Dans le volume 1, plusieurs personnes ont joué le jeu. Dans ce volume aussi. Mais le mystère de cette offre s'épaissit au fur et à mesure que le voile se lève sur l'organisation (les organisations ?) cachées derrière les attaché cases... Très bien écrit (y compris en français pour les scènes se déroulant à Paris !), très bien dessiné également, cet ouvrage vous tient autant que vous le tenez en main tout au long de la lecture.