I love Risso's cinematic camera angles and his use of stark, high contrast lighting. It's the perfect complement to Brian Azzarello's hardboiled conspiracy-laden storytelling.

Eduardo Risso lives in Argentina. He fills orders once every three months or so, so when you go on Risso binges, as I frequently do, it can be quite an excercise in patience between ordering and receiving pages. These two showed up in a package containing three other 100b pages. I hadn't ordered this spread, but there were two pages that I did order missing from the package. I feared Enrico Salvini, Risso's rep and all around great guy, had mistakenly sent me someone else's pages and sent them mine. After a quick email exchange in which Enrico had a mild heart attack, I learned there'd been no mistake. This spread was a gift! Before you shoot me for my good fortune--this spread is 100% photostat. It's still a beauty, though. Gotta love the intellectual dialog, too.

Another infamous gun exchange page, this from one of my favorite standalone stories. I'd wanted to buy this entire issue way back when, but Eduardo had broken it up by giving page 22 to a friend.

The money shot from issue 11. From the combination of shilouette and light in the top panel to the reverse play of light and shadow in the lower left, this page is yet another example of Risso's mastery of composition.

Illusions of domestic bliss abound in this opening scene, introducing us to a working class husband and his working class but still babe-o-lithic wife.