Borderline, Volume II

Borderline #2

by Carlos Trillo, Eduardo Risso (Artist)

162 pages.

Continuing Science Fiction Pulp Noir in the tradition of Sin City and 100 Bullets from creator/artist Eduardo Risso! Known for his moody powerful artwork, Eduardo Risso has commanded a legion of fans from his work on 100 Bullets and Batman among others. But until now fans have never experienced the raw power and vision of Borderline (with writer Chris Trillo)!

Borderline, originally published in Italy, is a 600-page epic created by Risso and Trillo with whom the artist has previously worked on a slate of other projects. This powerful piece of graphic fiction has never before been available in the United States in English.
Now Borderline -- described by Harvey and Eisner Award winning creator Risso as a sci-fi post-apocalyptic story that openly shows the miseries and kindness of Humankind -- is available in English for the first time from DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT. Volume 2 weighs in at an impressive 160 pages filled with Risso's gorgeous artwork and Trillo's fantastic ideas! This is a must-have for every fan of comics and art!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

162 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Carlos Trillo was an Argentine comic book writer. Trillo began a prolific career as writer already at the age of 20, writing his first story for Patoruzú magazine. Trillo created, together with Horacio Altuna, the strip El Loco Chávez, which appeared every day at the back of the newspaper Clarín from July 26, 1975 to November 10, 1987. After that, the strip was replaced by El Negro Blanco, which he wrote for the artist Ernesto García Seijas until September 1993. He married writer Ema Wolf and had two children. He participated on the creation of several comics including Cybersix in 1992, with Carlos Meglia, and the Clara de noche and Cicca Dum Dum series with Jordi Bernet. He has also collaborated with Alberto Breccia and Alejandro Dolina. In 1999, his work La grande arnaque won the Prize for Scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He died in London on May 8, 2011, while on holiday with his wife.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Ken Janisch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great series. The art is beautiful and the plot twisted!

[Mee Too · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories make no sense and are completely sporadic like talking to street people. Lucky for me I often entertain myself by talking to street peoples 😂

Arts is cool, this volume was a bit overly vulgar in comparison, but not by much.

2.9✨⭐️

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

DPL hoopla

[Shawn Ingle · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just can’t get into this series.

[Gav451 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rather than being central to the plot this volume feels like the author is fleshing out the world. There are no HUGE developments here but there are hints of back stories to come. This is a series of illustrative tales rather than a narrative driven single volume.

It is no worse for this. The singular and wonderful art is still present as is the sharp writing. This future feels fully realised and alien. The characters idiosyncrasies are still there and we get to see some of them is sharper detail.

Still a great read, still beautiful art and definitely worth the entry fee.

After some consideration I am able to confirm that this tale still has nothing do do with Borderline by Madonna. Neither in terms of content or theme. (Although hers is a nightmarish apocalyptic vision of bandanna wearing, denim clad, gum chewing vacuous teenage zombies.)

[Shaun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trillo and Risso's Borderline is exactly the sort of post-apocalyptic cyberpunk I wan to read. Subtly political, Fantastical, and highly stylized; this volume contains a series of short missions performed by operatives on Crash and Blue. We see their different characters develop based on how each of them complete the amoral missions that their masters send them on. Clever storytelling broken up into bite-size chunks.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seems to lose its momentum a bit in this volume. Still some interesting events and as always gorgeous artwork and inks, but it didn't feel like, aside from Wolf and Ursula (characters I'm not particularly interested in) there wasn't much other character development. It's definitely still good enough to keep reading, especially while it's on sale at Comixology!

[Zanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

19.99

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Edición argentina, tomo 2 de 4.