Written by Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets Volume 5: The Counterfifth Detective is a DC Comics crime comic book collection published under the Vertigo imprint. Milo is about to discover that the past he thought he knew might not be as clear as he believed. Wrapped in bandages, Milo finds himself approached by Agent Graves who tells Milo that he has a chance to get even with the man who set him up…but Milo quickly finds himself caught in a spiral of lies and allies who might not be who they say they are. Milo Garret is a hardboiled detective who is recovering after losing a fight with his windshield after a car accident.
everything after kinda sucked, so i gotta knock it back down to 4, because there's a lot of 5 star comics out there that do a lot better than 10 awesome pages out of ~160. Update: i should know by now that my giving anything 5 stars before i'm done is the kiss of death. but i'm way down for some more awesome scenes like these along the way. big picture: i still don't know much more than i did, and honestly, i'm now afraid that there's too many 'minutemen' that are too similar, and there's not going to be enough depth to set them apart once this story finally reveals something.
then again a few pages later, a great cliffhanger where a seemingly minor macguffin connects this arc to the main plot, foreboding all hell breaking loose. HOLY SHIT! this arc starts with subtle props to Shoot the Piano Player (which i also just recently read), then begins a standard noir pretzel plot with a private detective getting out of the hospital with his head in wraps (a cool touch) and some clever dialogue, BUT the last 10 pages of the 4th issue in this arc is exactly why comics RULE: back and forth frames showing the perspective of two men with concealed guns across the bar of a crowded diner locked in a non-verbal battle of wills, so-to-speak.
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