{"id":8200,"date":"2013-05-06T04:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2013-05-06T05:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T09:54:19","slug":"100-bullets-should-be-a-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8200","title":{"rendered":"100 Bullets Should be a TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z050613_100bullets.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Yesterday, we took a look at\u00a0<strong>Carl Jansson&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>choices for<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whatculture.com\/film\/10-non-superhero-comic-series-that-would-make-great-tv-shows.php\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a010 Non-Superhero Comic Series That Would Make Great TV Shows<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>This inspired me to think about which non-superhero comics I would want to see turned into a tv series. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">First up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><em><strong>100 Bullets<\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0<strong>Brian Azzarello<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Eduardo Risso. \u00a0<\/strong>Designed to run 100 issues (and it did), <em><strong>100 Bullets<\/strong><\/em> started with a simple concept&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;the mysterious Agent Graves approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person that has wronged them. Offering his clients an attach\u00e9 case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his &#8220;clients&#8221; full immunity for all of their actions, including murder&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; and as the cast grew larger, so did the weight of the story. \u00a0As we learn more we come to realize that Agent Graves, his offer of a gun and immunity are just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/100_bullets\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>part of a much bigger, more complex plot<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that plays out in the best noir\/crime fiction traditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I can&#8217;t believe that\u00a0some forward thinking tv execs haven&#8217;t jumped all over this series. \u00a0There have been rumors over the years, but nothing has come of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you haven&#8217;t read <em><strong>100 Bullets<\/strong><\/em>, you should. \u00a0It&#8217;s that good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401232019?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1401232019&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>100 Bullets: Deluxe Edition Book One<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401233724?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1401233724&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>100 Bullets: Deluxe Edition Book Two<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401237290?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1401237290&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>100 Bullets: Deluxe Edition Book Three<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401238076?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1401238076&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>100 Bullets: Deluxe Edition Book Four<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401242715?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1401242715&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>100 Bullets: Deluxe Edition Book Five<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we took a look at\u00a0Carl Jansson&#8217;s\u00a0choices for\u00a010 Non-Superhero Comic Series That Would Make Great TV Shows. \u00a0This inspired me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,51,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-crime","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}