100 Bullets, Vol. 4: A Foregone Tomorrow
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings23
Average rating3.5
The final battle between the surviving houses of the Trust and their onetime enforcer Agent Graves has been joined, and casualties on both sides promise to be high. In this war, however, the line between soldier and civilian has all but vanished, and no one is giving much thought to collateral damage. But just as no plan of attack ever survives its first contact with the enemy, history shows that unexpected factors are often the most decisive--and that both sides are equally vulnerable.
Series
3 primary books12 released books100 Bullets, Vol. 1 #1-100 (1999-2009) is a 12-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by Brian Azzarello and Tatjana Jambrišak.
Series
2 primary books100 Balas is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by Brian Azzarello.
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Crime fiction, as a genre fascinates me, although I don't read a lot of it. Part of it's because it's rather uniquely named; science fiction stories, for example, contain fiction driven by science, and horror stories contain horrific elements, etc. A good Crime story, though, isn't really about crime at all - it's about Justice, and that is clearly the case wit 100 Bullets.
There's an interesting moral question asked in the story, one that parallels Plato's Ring of Gyges myth; if you were given the tools with which to kill someone, without fear of reprisal, would you do it? What about if the person you're asked to kill is someone who also ruined your life, and you know that they'll never face justice under the legal system? When does “street justice” become justified?
That philosophical aspect is really what makes 100 Bullets worth reading; if it was just a bunch of stories where Agent Graves gave people a gun with 100 untraceable bullets, it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. I'll definitely be picking up the rest of this series, though, to see what kind of morality tales Azzarello chooses to tell next.
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