silkcuts's Filthy Rich #1 - HC review

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    Move over Parker!

    Because of the Trade paperback to come out later this year, I was thinking why not do a Filthy Rich review.  
     
    Brian Azzarello is one of the premier crime comic writers.  He has had a story in Dark Horse's Noir, his own Vertigo series 100 Bullets lasting for 100 issues, great Noir Batman Stories like Broken City, Joker, Batman/Deathblow: After the fire, Wednesday Comics and his current first wave. Vertigo being an imprint that was once known for its magical series are more known now for their crime stories and so to launch this new imprint, why not get him to create a story which can become a series.
     
    This is pulp Noir at its best.  You can see the Jim Thompson influence in this book.  The grit, the sex and the betrayal, it was The Getaway meets Jonny Double.  This is no average boy meets girl love story.  It is a man name Richard and how he wants to be Filthy Rich and the depths he will sink to get there.
     
    Most people I have spoke to about this book hated the ending, I on the other hand loved the ending.  What makes this great is it can become its own series, like Richard Stark's Parker books, Vertigo Crime and Brian Azzarello now have Richard "Junk" Junkin. The world is established now and the tension is unresolved.  Who dies next? Is the question we are left with.
     
    I hope this imprint is successful because I want more Filthy Rich! Go pick up the Hardcover if you can find it, it is better quality then the softcover will be. 
    5/5
    Cheers!
     - Silkcuts

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      I am ten years late to this book. I happened upon a first printing of a hardcover Filthy Rich in a used bookstore. I got it for a ridiculous $3.37, rather than its cover price of $19.99, but that was just a bonus to me. I picked it up because it had Brian Azzarello's name on it. I didn't actually know that he had written the excellent 100 Bullets, or Batman: Broken City, or Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire. I learned all that reading Silkcuts' review of this book (thanks, Silk'). But the New 52 ...

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