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Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 11, 1962) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series ''100 Bullets'', published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. In 2011, he became the writer of DC's relaunched ''Wonder Woman'' series. ==Career== Brian Azzarello was the line editor for Andrew Rev's incarnation of Comico. Azzarello's first published comics work was "An Undead Evolution", a text article in ''Cold Blooded'' #1 (May 1993) published by Northstar. His first story for DC Comics was "Ares" which appeared in ''Weird War Tales'' vol. 2 #1 (June 1997). He and artist Eduardo Risso launched the ''100 Bullets'' series for Vertigo in August 1999. In addition to ''100 Bullets'', Azzarello has written for ''Batman'' ("Broken City"; ''Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire''; ''Joker''; and ''Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance''〔Manning "2010s" in Dougall (2014), p. 318: "In this powerful reimagining of the Batman legend, writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso joined forces for a three-issue examination of ''Flashpoint's'' Batman."〕), ''Hellblazer'' and ''Superman'' ("For Tomorrow" and ''Lex Luthor: Man of Steel''). In 2003, upon being assigned to write both the ''Batman'' and ''Superman'' titles, Azzarello told the ''Chicago Tribune'', "DC is giving me the keys to both cars in the garage, the Maserati and the Ferrari...Somebody told me, 'Don't drive drunk.'" Mark Waid's and Alex Ross' 1996 miniseries ''Kingdom Come'' features a character named "666", who is physically modeled after Azzarello. In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western ''Loveless'', with artist Marcelo Frusin. Also at Vertigo, his ''Filthy Rich'' original graphic novel was one of the two titles that launched the Vertigo Crime line. Azzarello and Risso produced a Batman serial for ''Wednesday Comics'' in 2009. He designed the First Wave, a new fictional universe for DC Comics, separate from the main DC Universe. It starts with a ''Batman/Doc Savage'' one-shot, followed by the ''First Wave'' limited series. In 2011 he began writing The New 52 relaunch of the ''Wonder Woman'' series, collaborating with artist Cliff Chiang. He wrote two ''Before Watchmen'' limited series featuring the Comedian and Rorschach. In 2014, he and Jeff Lemire, Keith Giffen, and Dan Jurgens co-wrote ''The New 52: Futures End''. In April 2015 he was announced as the co-writer of an eight-issue second sequel to ''The Dark Knight Returns'', titled ''The Dark Knight III: The Master Race'', with Frank Miller. The series will be released twice-monthly starting in late 2015. Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson will be the artists on the series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Azzarello」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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