Oscar
Not cool, Oscar.

Indeed. At decently sized Texas high schools, it is extraordinarily rare for a freshman to warm a varsity football bench, let alone start. They'd get hurt. Football is the rare sport that talent and skill can't compensate for trailing in physical development, the same reason football phenoms, no matter how freakishly…

I think it stays pretty strong through the first eight or nine books. Azzarello's deliberate, character-driven plotting and Risso's attention to detail really stand out from the overcrowded "edgy pulp" genre and create some of the best comic noir I can remember. On top of that,
the dense stories and wordplay give the…