9th Art

Brian Azzarello has long been one of my favourite writers because a lot of his work raises very fundamental issues of human nature. Take the cult 100 Bullets, for example. Before it spun out into the Mafia-Minutemen serial, it addressed a very simple question: what would you do if you were given the means and indemnity to kill someone close to you if you found out they ruined your life? Or his more recent Joker, which put the reader next to the super-villain and begs the question: why does he do what he does? » Read the rest of this entry «