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LIFE
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Expected 3 Nov 26- GenresComics
304 pages, Paperback
Expected publication November 3, 2026
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About the author
Brian Azzarello
1,295 books1,110 followersBrian 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.
information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...
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.
information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...
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October 4, 2025
4.5/5 ⭐
Wow! Brian Azzarello has been one of my favourite comic book writers since I discovered 100 Bullets back in high school and have followed him since.
This was one of the most cinematically told comics I have ever read. It's an absolute marvel what Azzarello and Stephanie Phillips did here, the way it flows and reveals a little bit about the story in each half of the book but what isn't in one half does not take away from that section of story.
The art had just as much to o with the success of this book as the two authors. What a unique way to draw the Cons showing how being here for hundreds of years - and being unable to die - has affected them in ways I wouldn't have even considered. While looking similar - in such a way that shows they have evolve along side each other - each Con has a VERY distinct an easy to tell apart; seeing their backstories before an while they are changing was a really great way to engrain who each character was in the reader's mind.
The art translates very well to the Pros and each character (Pro and Con) is just so fully realised in look an how they move in panels.
I look forward to reading this again in the near future, but with reading the Con side of each book first.
Another excellent outing from DSTLRY!
Wow! Brian Azzarello has been one of my favourite comic book writers since I discovered 100 Bullets back in high school and have followed him since.
This was one of the most cinematically told comics I have ever read. It's an absolute marvel what Azzarello and Stephanie Phillips did here, the way it flows and reveals a little bit about the story in each half of the book but what isn't in one half does not take away from that section of story.
The art had just as much to o with the success of this book as the two authors. What a unique way to draw the Cons showing how being here for hundreds of years - and being unable to die - has affected them in ways I wouldn't have even considered. While looking similar - in such a way that shows they have evolve along side each other - each Con has a VERY distinct an easy to tell apart; seeing their backstories before an while they are changing was a really great way to engrain who each character was in the reader's mind.
The art translates very well to the Pros and each character (Pro and Con) is just so fully realised in look an how they move in panels.
I look forward to reading this again in the near future, but with reading the Con side of each book first.
Another excellent outing from DSTLRY!
October 29, 2025
Note: I didn't read this book, but six part installments from DSTLRY.
Recently I read a book of stories that was so bleak that I didn't like it at all. Life here has a great premise but left me with a similar feeling.
The story starts great and I especially liked the execution with two parallel stories unfolding that you read from the opposite sides, one being called PROS and the other CONS. This is the first time I thought that PROS can also mean professionals and CONS can be convicts :)
There is the heist, and the group supposed to do it and there are the worst criminals in the world on the site of the heist. So, what better setting you need (Con Air comes to mind). Only the things start to unravel fast
By the end of it, it becomes a horror, bleak in the representation of the humans and their suffering, in the absence of hope, in the actual visuals. Maybe I don't have the stomach for it anymore...
The drawings are characteristic Zezelj - sometimes it is hard to follow who is who and the coloring here does not add up to the experience. I hoped for more from this one.
Recently I read a book of stories that was so bleak that I didn't like it at all. Life here has a great premise but left me with a similar feeling.
The story starts great and I especially liked the execution with two parallel stories unfolding that you read from the opposite sides, one being called PROS and the other CONS. This is the first time I thought that PROS can also mean professionals and CONS can be convicts :)
There is the heist, and the group supposed to do it and there are the worst criminals in the world on the site of the heist. So, what better setting you need (Con Air comes to mind). Only the things start to unravel fast
By the end of it, it becomes a horror, bleak in the representation of the humans and their suffering, in the absence of hope, in the actual visuals. Maybe I don't have the stomach for it anymore...
The drawings are characteristic Zezelj - sometimes it is hard to follow who is who and the coloring here does not add up to the experience. I hoped for more from this one.
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August 20, 2025Issues 1-5 (of 6)
Story: 5 stars – Azzarello brings his expected talent, and IMO the best work Phillips has written.
Art: 3 stars – Žeželj is a superb illustrator, excellently renders old dirty broken-down tech. Characters have reasonably distinct designs and emote effectively amongst heavy blacks. But the action is often confusing, with panel choices that sometimes fail to display the design characteristics that would make plain who has lashed out at whom. Loughbridge is a fine colourist, but his elegant minimalist palette isn't leveraged to do the job it should regarding character identification in these moments of action.
Story: 5 stars – Azzarello brings his expected talent, and IMO the best work Phillips has written.
Art: 3 stars – Žeželj is a superb illustrator, excellently renders old dirty broken-down tech. Characters have reasonably distinct designs and emote effectively amongst heavy blacks. But the action is often confusing, with panel choices that sometimes fail to display the design characteristics that would make plain who has lashed out at whom. Loughbridge is a fine colourist, but his elegant minimalist palette isn't leveraged to do the job it should regarding character identification in these moments of action.
October 28, 2025
DSTLRY gets phenomenal creative teams for their books, but their release schedule is absolutely awful. As with most of their books, I'm going to have to give this a straight read through for a more accurate rating, but 3-stars seems right for a 6-issue series that took over a year to release. When you're mixing up characters in the final issues, that's never a good sign.
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