100 Bullets #7

This seventh trade paperback collection of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's noir masterwork arrives under a striking Dave Johnson cover that splits the composition into bold red, black, and white vertical bars — a masked, orange-eyed figure in a sharp suit looms in the upper half, while a snarling tiger with glowing eyes prowls the lower, the two figures caged by the same relentless grid. The "Samurai" subtitle and the series' signature Vertigo sensibility promise another chapter of morally complex crime storytelling from one of the medium's most assured creative partnerships. If you've been following Agent Graves and his lethal briefcases, this volume — opening with "Chill in the Oven" — is exactly the kind of 2004-era Vertigo noir that keeps you turning pages well past midnight.