100 Bullets #7

The stark red-and-black cover design for this 2013 Urban Comics edition of *100 Bullets* — subtitled "Cages" — says everything without saying a word: a masked figure and a snarling big cat peer through vertical bars, making confinement itself the visual theme. Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's celebrated noir collaboration gets a sharp French-language collected edition here, and the bold graphic design perfectly captures the series' mood of people and animals trapped by circumstance. A compelling volume for fans of crime comics who appreciate design as uncompromising as the stories inside.