Books by Brian Azzarello
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review 1: Well at least the New 52 WW is no longer totally terrible by this volume. I guess we're not going to be able to have anything except the Zola/Zeke storyline for the rest of Brian Azzarello's run (still wish there was a bit more variety), but this volume finally had a more compell...
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review 1: This is a great collection of Batman stories, spotlighting the art of Eduardo Risso in beautiful black and white. If you're a fan of '100 Bullets' or Brian Azzarello's writing (as I am), and you think the Azzarello/Risso team is perfect for Batman, you have to read this. Especia...
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review 1: I came to this series interested the premise, which seemed to promise some interesting takes on the morality of revenge. But after six issues/chapters, I didn't feel like it was heading towards those places. It felt more interested in the seedy, down-and-dirty situations of its c...
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review 1: This one was middle of the road as far as the Vertigo Crime line went. Not the best, but also not the worst. I find Brian Azzarello's writing confusing at times, but this was one of his more straightforward stories. The art was a bit similar to Eduardo Risso, so fans of 100 Bulle...
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review 1: Oh dear, oh dear. Of all the Watchmen prequels I have read (I'm still yet to read Comedian), this is the worst. The other Before Watchmen books, while still a bit unnecessary as any Watchmen spin-off could be since the original is fine on its own, are created by writers and artis...
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review 1: The art in this is just so sad. They couldn't have found a better artist for the Wonder Woman reboot? Man. Also, why does Poseidon look like a giant river monster? Sigh. Plot was okay enough, though I didn't really remember where we left off from Vol. 2...I'll read the next one b...
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review 1: Not bad at all, Azzarello. You've got my interest.I had to groan a little at some of the one-liners in here, mostly because they didn't seem to flow too naturally, but other than that, the characterization is done well enough that I can sort of feel out a voice for Strife, Hermes...
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review 1: A darker, twisted version of the Joker as portrayed in the The Dark Knight movie, but the use of female characters as silent toys and rape victims ultimately killed this for me. The Joker is a mine for explorations of a dark psyche, and this comic does get into some sick depths....
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review 1: This is my first time diving into the world of Wonder Woman. I have zero knowledge of previous stories or her origin story, which is why I started with this volume.I love greek mythology so when I heard that Wonder Woman has a place in it I couldn't help but read this. Overall, t...
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review 1: Le tre stelle finali sono forse il risultato di un certo disinteresse che ho iniziato a provare per le vicende del Trust, dei Minutemen e compagnia criminale da un certo punto in poi della serie.Preferisco Azzarello quando si dedica al piccolo sottobosco. La sua capacità di osser...
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review 1: Not going to write a big review for this book. Story is average at best and the artwork leaves much to be desired if im honest. The story itself is a rehash of many a story like it before. Famous football player gets knee smashed in for not taking bribes from mafia but everyone d...
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review 1: This trade was a bit rockier than the other volumes of Chiang and Azzarello's Wonder Woman, but those last few pages really brought this story home. I am a sucker for a good fist pump moment, and the last few pages of Volume 5 delivered that for me. The only nitpick I have for th...
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review 1: I'm going to review these back to back, because I went on a binge reading yesterday, so I wound up blurring the lines of where one volume ended and the next began.Well, I loved it. I sincerely loved all of it. It was grandiose, awesome, and plotty, with a heavy dosis of intrigue ...
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review 1: Read this on the plane ride to Korea and wow. I loved it. I love these comics that go out of the norm in terms of its storyline. The story is from the perspective of one of the joker's henchmen. I love this idea, because you get to see stuff that you never see. Even if it is some...
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review 1: Released in 2008, Joker was clearly created to accompany The Dark Knight. The Joker looks eerily similar to that of Heath Ledger, which leads most to assume this. The story really has nothing though. There aren't characters to lock on to, and there isn't really any meat story wis...
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review 1: So, I was a little upset with the change in Wonder Women's background. With the clay background she was the perfect Amazon made without the creation of a man, and I thought making Zeus her father, a god who rapped maidens and consistently cheated on his wife, would taken away the...
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review 1: I read the first few issues on their own, and wasn't very impressed. The dialect takes some getting used to, and every time a new issue came, it took forever to fall back into it. Reading it all in one go works a lot better. It's an unpleasant future that really feels like it's...
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review 1: Batman goes after some government agent in a plot that started many years ago. Or something. That I couldn’t fully understand the plot is one problem; that this volume couldn’t motivate me enough to bother to try find out says something about the plotting and overall quality of t...