I know I've said it before, but I just really dig this book. I like the whole "gangster" genre. And I really think that Brian Azzarello does such a great job with these stories. Also Eduardo Risso's moody, shadowy, dark art is perfect for this book. We got a couple of different plot lines going on this issue. We got Rome in Rome, ironic huh?, going to collect a painting for an investigator. But I really don't think he's ready to deal with the big city crowd. First they send a girl to meet with him, Echo, who is just a knockout. Meoww!! And her dress is short enough to distract him. She takes him out to dinner, before business, to gain some trust and confidence from him. She then takes him back to her flat for the business part of the evening. The problem is he has a bum leg, and walks with a cane, and she lives on the third floor with no elevator. So she takes off upstairs, and then someone passes him on their way down with his briefcase and a gun. The other plot line has Graves and Dizzy in a jazz club. Dizzy is working for him, but she still has loyalties to Shepherd, even though he's dead. So he decides he's going to tell her the story about how he found him, and how he got him to work for him. It's really not the story you expected to hear. But that's what I like about Brian's stories. He really pulls you in, and helps you get to know all the characters. And this book has a lot of them. His character development, and then interaction, is just incredible. Luckily I've been reading this since the beginning, so I don't have to buy the TPB's. But, if you haven't been, you should pick them up, and get a look at this book from the beginning. Actually, I think they're doing a thing on the Vertigo website, where there showing all the first issues of every Vertigo title. It might be worth a look see if you haven't read it before.
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