Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. He and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double, won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".
Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee).
In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.
As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson.
This is a hard one to rate for me. I feel my hype for it may have set my expectations too high. It’s a decent horror anthology imo. I may be in the minority but I feel there’s more misses than hits with the stories in this book. At least a handful of the stories or so had me wondering wtf happened or left me a bit confused. I do love the varying art styles. I say it’s worth a read but not worth a buy.
A very weak comic horror anthology which unfortunately won't leave any (lasting) impression. Both the stories and the art are disappointing and it is telling that I couldn't wait for it to be over so I could move to something more interesting. Stay far far away.
As is true of all anthologies, this has some bright gems, and a lot of works that don't hit home for me. I never would expect all 48 stories to be home runs, but the experience as a whole was nice. MANY artistic greats in here, as well as many of my favorite writers from Vertigo titles in general.