On July 1, the multi-Eisner Award-winning team of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso reunite for 100 Bullets: The US of Anger #1, the start of an all-new eight-issue limited series that brings their landmark creation back to the page with purpose and precision. This is not a return. This is a reckoning.
Not many people made it out alive from the fall of the Trust in 100 Bullets. Lono did—just barely—and the years since have taken him far from home. His onetime protégé, Loop Hughes, was the only one smart enough to walk away clean. But tragedy has come knocking on Loop’s door, and the scent of blood has drawn a dangerous stray dog back across the border. Lono isn’t back to make peace. He’s back to make trouble. Lono is home again, and he’s hunting through a landscape of good ol’ boys and militias, megachurches, millionaires, and madmen.
For more than two decades, 100 Bullets stood as one of the defining works of modern comics, set the bar for crime comics, and defined what Vertigo could be. The series reshaped Vertigo’s crime-noir identity, set the bar with multiple Eisner and Harvey awards, and proved that creator-driven crime fiction could be as literary and ambitious as anything in the medium. Its influence has never faded, and its relevance has only sharpened.
In Brother Lono, the titular character tried and failed to save his own soul. In The US of Anger, he becomes something far more dangerous: a catalyst for the demons already lurking in America’s shadow. As the country reaches its 250th anniversary, the world has finally caught up to the kind of story Azzarello and Risso have always told—one where violence, power, and rage collide in ways that feel uncomfortably familiar. Their new story cuts directly into the fractures of modern America, rendered for the first time in stunning black and white, bringing a stark new visual edge to a world that has never felt more timely. Vertigo was built on stories that cut deep. The US of Anger is exactly that kind of story.
100 Bullets: The US of Anger #1 is written by Brian Azzarello with art by Eduardo Risso, lettering by Clem Robins, and a main cover by Dave Johnson, with variant covers by Frank Miller, Jock, and Eduardo Risso. The 40-page debut issue is priced at $3.99, with card-stock variants available for $4.99, and is the first installment of an eight-issue limited series arriving on July 1, 2026. 100 Bullets: The US of Anger is published under DC Vertigo and carries an Ages 17+ content descriptor for mature readers.
100 Bullets: The US of Anger #1 variant cover by Eduardo Risso
As DC Vertigo’s new titles continue to roll out through 2026 and beyond, readers can look forward to even more series debuting. Upcoming launches include Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy by Ram V and Mike Perkins, The Crying Dollby Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, A Walking Shadow by Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell, Fanaticby Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer, and Necretaceous by Tom Taylor and Darick Robertson. These new titles continue expanding the imprint’s lineup with the bold, creator-driven storytelling that defines Vertigo’s legacy.
Reminder: 100 Bullets isn’t coming back. It’s arriving right on time. Mark your calendars for July 1.
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