100 Bullets - Is there a lot of Sex and Nudity

[abugeorge]

Hello, I wanted to ask how the content in 100 Bullets are. I don't mind some violence and swearing but how about the nudity and sex? Is there a lot of that or is it mainly a crime series?

thx

[CTpitch]

there really isn't that much sex and nudity in 100 bullets
not to say there isn't but there are very few sex scenes

[carabas]

Hello, I wanted to ask how the content in 100 Bullets are. I don't mind some violence and swearing but how about the nudity and sex? Is there a lot of that or is it mainly a crime series?

thx

Does not compute. Sex and nudity are staple components of crime series.

But there's actually rather a lot of it... Not nudity per se. Certainly a lot of sex and talk about sex. And almost every panel that has a female character in it simply oozes sex.

[CaptMagellan]

Does not compute. Sex and nudity are staple components of crime series.

But there's actually rather a lot of it... Not nudity per se. Certainly a lot of sex and talk about sex. And almost every panel that has a female character in it simply oozes sex.

Yeah. Also, it's a bit of a subjective question. I don't find it to have that much and certainly not TOO much (I'm not fazed by that sort of thing especially when it's integral to the story), but if someone feels the need to ask the OP's question... then the answer is probably "Yes. There is a lot of sex (if not nudity)."

[Flash's Lightning]

I actually read a lot of this series, it does feature sex, drugs, crime, etc as much as your typical rated R crime movie would feature. There's nudity, but I wouldn't say anything gratuitous really.

I had to stop halfway through this series because I just didn't get what was going on fully. I just didn't understand it; I don't know if it's that complicated or if I'm just that slow, but I think I'll begin again with it and give it another go.

[cgh]

I actually read a lot of this series, it does feature sex, drugs, crime, etc as much as your typical rated R crime movie would feature. There's nudity, but I wouldn't say anything gratuitous really.

I had to stop halfway through this series because I just didn't get what was going on fully. I just didn't understand it; I don't know if it's that complicated or if I'm just that slow, but I think I'll begin again with it and give it another go.

It wasn't just you, it is pretty confusing. I still don't fully get the ending.

[dancj]

It's mostly not too confusing if you read through all of the trades in one go - but I did need to double-check a couple of details about the end on Wikipedia.

[Cryptid]

Yes, things do get progressively more complicated as the series goes on, especially given the brilliant simplicity of those first few arcs. In answer to the original question, there isn't a great deal of on-panel screwing, but it's still a hardboiled series. The tone is consistently seedy and suggestive. Each arc features at least one shirt-bursting femme fatale, except for the ones that center on girl-power-with-thongs. It's a crime series that starts with Hammett and Spillane and then only gets nastier, so not a page of the thing is wholesome...but it's artfully vulgar.

[Paladin King]

"I'm just fine with murder and violence....but sex? Naked people? AAAAGH"

I've never been really sure how people rationalize that line of thinking.

[cgh]

"I'm just fine with murder and violence....but sex? Naked people? AAAAGH"

I've never been really sure how people rationalize that line of thinking.

I used to think it was just a certain large segment of the American population that felt this way. Then I went and spent time in a few Muslim countries and saw the same phenomenon. I think it's just conservative/religious societies in general that are okay with crazy violence but get squeamish about people happily making love.

[Paladin King]

I used to think it was just a certain large segment of the American population that felt this way. Then I went and spent time in a few Muslim countries and saw the same phenomenon. I think it's just conservative/religious societies in general that are okay with crazy violence but get squeamish about people happily making love.

Which will never make sense.

All of our parents, at some point, got naked and did the dirty.

I will, however, wager that most of our parents have not committed an act of murder.

[Ari Gold]

I will, however, wager that most of our parents have not committed an act of murder.

I imagine that's exactly why people are more "comfortable" with the latter. It's less real, less relatable.

[Shellhead]

"I'm just fine with murder and violence....but sex? Naked people? AAAAGH"

I've never been really sure how people rationalize that line of thinking.

I like what George R.R. Martin said about that in an interview:

"It’s an important part of human life and necessary for any kind of realistic portrayal. That’s my audience. It’s a sad commentary on American morals that the sex is the thing that people object to. I find that sad, but it is true. I can describe an axe entering a person’s skull and no one objects, but if I describe a penis entering a vagina, there’s an outcry."