100 Bullets #5

This French Panini edition of *100 Bullets* brings Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's hard-boiled crime series to Francophone readers under the subtitle *Le Blues du Prince Rouge*. Dave Johnson's cover is a striking collage of characters — a shadowy figure in a cowboy hat, a blonde woman in a sharp black suit, a close-up of a gun being handled, a blue-tinted man with golden hair, and a scattered hand of playing cards — all rendered in a cool, graphic style that perfectly captures the series' atmosphere of moral ambiguity and danger. At 13 EUR, this 2008 volume is a sleek entry point into one of Vertigo's most stylishly crafted crime narratives.