100 Bullets: Brother Lono #1

Brother Lono #1

Azzarello, Risso

Solicitation & Preview

Review
Well, maybe I should have finished 100 Bullets. Maybe.

As a first issue, the book does the job it should do, in a way. Let's not mince words, Azzarello has a style and Risso have a style and they are sticking to it. Personally, I've just been burned out by it. It happened when I was reading Wonder Woman and I just wanted something a little more from Azzarello. Even reading Spaceman from this creative team had some limits for me.

This feels like work that has a lot of potential to be really great, but the creative team is just at the minimum requirements table. This is something I've said about Azzarello before, and I think it is starting to take it's toll on how I view Risso.

Risso has some great visuals, which is really helpful in tackling the lightness of Azzarello's script. Maybe there is more that Azzarello puts down for artist notes that I'm not taking into account, but all his character's text sounds very interchangeable. Insert panels from the original 100 Bullets series and see how the characters come across as very predictable and formulaic.

It is just painful to see something that has so much potential just not care enough to put more on the page.

Grades
Words: 4/10
Pictures: 8/10
General Feeling After Reading: Deflated.
Buy Next Issue: Nah, I'll get the eventual trade. Maybe.