IGN: But did you have this particular story in mind as a possibility back then, or was it more a matter of leaving an opening if you decided to come back? Azzarello: This was something that Eduardo and I came up with a few years ago. I mean, he was such a force of nature in 100 Bullets that leaving that question in the air was our responsibility.
So to leave it open like that was a natural fit. Can I assume you were leaving room for a follow-up story even then? Azzarello: I don't think the character living or dying had any impact on the story we were telling. IGN: The final issue of Bullets left it up in the air as to whether Lono survived his latest brush with death. IGN: Is the phrase "100 Bullets" even in the official title? Is it possible someone could read this without even realizing there's a 100-issue story that preceded it? Azzarello: "100 Bullets" isn't even in the title. Other than the main character, they're completely different books. That's something I hadn't even thought about, but there's really no connection. You don't have to know anything about the old series. IGN: And I assume the benefit to that approach is that new readers will have no trouble jumping right into this without having read the old series? Azzarello: God, yeah. There will be no mention of a suitcase full of bullets in this project at all.
There's some threads left open for certain characters that we're revisiting. I consider 100 Bullets to be, on its own, a novel. What made you decide it was time to revisit 100 Bullets? Brian Azzarello: I don't consider this revisiting an old project at all. IGN Comics: You've never struck me as a writer who revisits old stories just for the heck of it.
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