LONO is a MADMAN!

[Lubichev]

Man, I knew Lono was a sadistic freak of nature, but the latest issue of 100 Bullets really drove that realization home. One of the best torture/interrogation scenes I've seem in a long time. Spoiler below.......








Some of the old Minutemen (and newly added Loop) are starting to exact their revenge on what went down in Atlantic City. To get information, Lono cuts off this guy’s finger and SMOKES IT LIKE A CIGAR! Then he shoves it in the dude’s mouth and duct tapes his mouth shut. Then he cuts off his nuts and stomps on them in front of him (“So, you do have some balls.”) and then dumps the heads of his fellow hit men on the floor while he bleeds to death with his own SMOKED finger in his mouth and his stomped nuts on the floor.
And I don't think the guy tells him very much. Except "Aaaarrgghh!!!"



I think things are going to start heating up. And I can only say it is about time.

[Smokin' J]

now you got me wanting to head out to the comic book store and pick up the latest issues of 100 Bullets.

[The Mirrorball Man]

I quit reading "100 Bullets" when I read "The Counterfifth Detective" for the third time and realized that I still couldn't understand what the story was about.

[Lubichev]

that was an obtuse arc. poor milo. was a minuteman but is now street pizza.
since it is a finite series, a little light gets shed on events in later issues but we are still wondering/deducing what exactly happened to the Minutemen and what Graves is ultimately up to.

[The Mirrorball Man]

that was an obtuse arc. poor milo. was a minuteman but is now street pizza.
since it is a finite series, a little light gets shed on events in later issues but we are still wondering/deducing what exactly happened to the Minutemen and what Graves is ultimately up to.
I'm sure everything will be revealed in the end, but I guess I'm not patient enough to be completely lost for a whole story arc, holding on the vague promise that what I've just read will make perfect sense five years later.

[slam]

The scene is even more sadistic than you think.

Those heads aren't from hitmen. They're from the guy's kids, I think. They were just talking about how he has heirs so his house in the Trust isn't dead, then Lono says "No you don't" and then dumps out those heads.

[FroggieBKT]

Some of the old Minutemen (and newly added Loop) are starting to exact their revenge on what went down in Atlantic City. To get information, Lono cuts off this guy’s finger and SMOKES IT LIKE A CIGAR! Then he shoves it in the dude’s mouth and duct tapes his mouth shut. Then he cuts off his nuts and stomps on them in front of him (“So, you do have some balls.”) and then dumps the heads of his fellow hit men on the floor while he bleeds to death with his own SMOKED finger in his mouth and his stomped nuts on the floor.
And I don't think the guy tells him very much. Except "Aaaarrgghh!!!"


I don't think he actually smoked the finger as that would be, well, impossible. I read it that he was reaching down to the table for the cigar and picked the finger up by mistake then swapped out for his cigar. Could be wrong but the picture shows the cigar lit up and a finger wouldn't do that. Still pretty damn sadistic. And those heads were from the kids...

[Lubichev]

Yeah, reading it again.....

The "Fzzzzzz" he gets from lighting it led me to think the at least lit it up. Maybe I'm more sadistic than I give myself credit for. But I lose a few points for not getting the kid's heads thing. My 9 year old daughter must have been turning the pages too fast for me to read the first time. She reads so fast now. :)

[FanboyStranger]

I quit reading "100 Bullets" when I read "The Counterfifth Detective" for the third time and realized that I still couldn't understand what the story was about.

I always thought that the haziness of the story was intentional, that we were supposed to feel as lost as Milo during it. That arc makes sense when you read on it the series. But it does illustrate why I stopped following 100 Bullets on a monthly basis and settled for picking up a few trades at a time. (And I tend to only buy trades of things I'm absolutely sure I'm going to want to reread down the line, although, now that I think of it, I do eventually buy most Vertigo trades.)

[mgs]

My 9 year old daughter must have been turning the pages too fast for me to read the first time. She reads so fast now. :)
You let your 9 yo daughter read 100 bullets!!???? :confused: dude!!

[The Mirrorball Man]

I always thought that the haziness of the story was intentional, that we were supposed to feel as lost as Milo during it. That arc makes sense when you read on it the series.
I think you're absolutely right, but I don't have the patience nor the dedication to read an absolutely meaningless story, store it in a dark corner of my mind, and wait five or six years to finally understand it. I thought it was much easier to just stop reading the whole thing.

[Lubichev]

Megan Detrich bit the dust! Those huge bosoms couldn't stop a bullet, although they looked like they could.
How many more issues do you think we'll get before everything is said and done? Seems like things are FINALLY heating up.

[Expletive Deleted]

Megan Detrich bit the dust! Those huge bosoms couldn't stop a bullet, although they looked like they could. I'm almost sad to see her go. She's the first member of the Trust that we met, and the book is a little bit more of a sausage-fest, now.How many more issues do you think we'll get before everything is said and done? Seems like things are FINALLY heating up.I could've sworn the original plan was one hundred issues, but with the way things are moving that seems a bit long.

[Inkthinker]

Yeah, I was pretty shocked to see Megan go... And I'm not even entirely sure why, except that Lono appears to be raising a sort of replacement corps for the Minutemen, while Graves is still keeping up the old way.

I need to go back and reread some, because I'm also a little lost on the plot.

What we realy need is a primer of some sort.

[Brock]

Yeah, wow, the book just lost 50% of the principle female cast. It was surprising how casually the event was treated. I would have thought she'd have a last line or something.

Unless she was smart enough to have a look-alike decoy?