100 Bullets #5

The six-Eisner-Award-winning series from Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso reaches its fifth collected volume, and Dave Johnson's cover makes the stakes unmistakably clear: a single bullet tears a blazing red-and-gold streak across the image, splitting a massive cast of grim, determined faces — tattooed enforcers, soldiers, women with hard eyes, and a commanding figure at the center — into two colliding worlds around the Roman numeral XIII. Hailed by the *Chicago Sun-Times* as "one of the greatest works of crime fiction in any medium," *100 Bullets* continues to deliver the morally tangled, noir-drenched storytelling that earned it that reputation. If you've been following this sprawling saga of power, revenge, and consequence, Book V looks like exactly the payoff the series has been building toward.