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Filthy Rich (2009)

by Brian Azzarello(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1401211844 (ISBN13: 9781401211844)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Vertigo

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 Bullets would probably enjoy this one. Dark crime story with a bit of an unsatisfying ending, but the story did have some twists I didn't see coming and never got boring. If you like the other Vertigo Crime graphic novels, you'll like this one, and if you like 100 Bullets you'll enjoy this one as well. However, if you didn't enjoy those books, this one probably won't change your mind. Good overall, just not great.
review 2: The art's questionable, at best, with an artist who's clearly in lov... moree with the black and white motif but not actually great in this story of using it effectively. Spent more time feeling dizzy than actually being able to tell who was talking.And if I wanted to read a book where a hard-luck, nogoodnik with bad impulse control slugs a bunch of people, sleeps around on his girlfriend, and gets hoodwinked into a crazy crime scheme, I could have picked up a Mickey Spillaine book, and it'd have had better written female characters.And if you don't know who Spillaine is, that's not a good sign.The more I read of the Vertigo Crime series, the more I understand why it went under. For every pretty solid story, there's one like this, that rather than use the conventions of the pulps to tell a story, digs into the worst parts of the pulps (in this case, the way women were portrayed) and seems to revel in an outdated, insulting, and disgusting story.Azzarello is better than this. I'm pissed off I gave him two hours of my time to find out as good as he is, he can mess it up bad with the wrong story. less

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