Matz does a good job wrapping it up. Not a great job, but a good one. He layers his narrative—going three weeks into the future or something, then two days before that point, so he can keep some suspense going as to the final fate of the protagonists. Wilson has his New York setting again…

Lots of surprises this issue, little ones, but surprises just the same. Matz’s pacing has been excellent throughout (probably because the French originals are split somehow into manageable American length) but this issue might be the best. He’s established a new status quo for the last two issues—even discussing the establishing of it and still…

Matz surprised me this issue. He definitely makes some rather unexpected plot changes—by this issue, Bullet to the Head doesn’t seem anything like where the first couple issues were headed. These developments have made the series strong, even if Matz’s dialogue (the cops are back) is as weak as usual. Again, it might not be…

Besides the goofy, mildly homoerotic last page (a waste of a page too, Wilson does a full page panel), this issue of Bullet to the Head is easily the best so far. The secret—no shock—to Matz turning in a good issue is the cops not being in it very much. About eighty percent of this…

Well, the dialogue certainly doesn’t get any better. Matz wastes two pages on some repetitive talking heads nonsense. That one can’t be a translation issue because the art’s laid out for it. As for the story, it stinks. The hitmen’s scenes are fine, quite good at times. But with everything else, Matz writes these hackneyed,…

Dynamite neglects to credit the translator on Bullet to the Head. Based on the cop dialogue, I wonder if they just fed Matz’s original French dialogue into Google Translator. The first half of the issue is two hit men having a very Pulp Fiction-esque conversation about shoes, women and psychotherapy before they kill someone. The…