El Diablo - Softcover

Azzarello, Brian; Zezelj, Danijel

3.44

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401216250 ISBN 13: 9781401216252

Publisher: Vertigo, 2008

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Former bounty hunter Sheriff "Holy" Moses Stone is drawn out of his quiet life in Bollas Raton after outlaw El Diablo pays an unwelcome visit to his peaceful town.

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About the Author:

Brian Azzarello's work on 100 Bullets and Jonny Double, as well as Batman, Hellblazer, and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel has catapulted him to the forefront of the ranks of contemporary comics writers, winning him several Eisner awards. Danijel Zezelj has worked on Weird War Tales and Flinch, and his illustrations regularly appear in The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Chronicle.

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Azzarello, best known for the hard-boiled 100 Bullets, branched out into the western genre with Loveless and here takes fans for another spin through his grim vision of the American west. Sheriff Moses Stone gathers up a posse to track down a vicious outlaw known only as El Diablo. Problem is, he is more specter than man, and the pursuers soon become the quarry as the shadowy past that Moses thought he’d left far behind snakes back toward him in the ghost town of Halo. Azzarello spills out the incredibly violent, tersely rendered story, with all its ponderous religious trappings, in tantalizing bits and pieces, all leading up to an unexpectedly revelatory ending. Zezelj’s expressive artwork is composed of thick, stark lines and heavy shadows that match the narrative tone, which ranges from harrowing to downright sadistic. The characters’ craggy features sometimes blend together, making who’s emptying whose brains out confusing, but for this brutal vision of the west, where sins literally haunt you to your grave, that ends up mattering less than you may think. --Ian Chipman

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