100 Bullets #3

A bald, sharp-suited man sits coolly at the center of a bold red target, a gun resting in his hand and a briefcase at his feet — Dave Johnson's striking cover for this 2001 German-edition Vertigo release immediately signals that *100 Bullets* operates at the intersection of power, danger, and consequence. Surrounding the central figure, smaller vignette portraits hint at a cast of characters caught in the crosshairs of something much larger. Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's noir-drenched series was already weaving a tense, morally complex web by this third collected installment, subtitled *Minutemen*.