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Stray Bullets | |
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250x450px Cover to Stray Bullets #1 (1995). Art by David Lapham. |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | El Capitan Books |
Schedule | Irregular |
Format | Ongoing series |
Genre | Crime |
Publication date | March 1995 – October 2005 |
Number of issues | 40 |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | David Lapham |
Artist(s) | David Lapham |
Letterer(s) | David Lapham |
Creator(s) | David Lapham |
Editor(s) | Deborah Purcell |
Collected editions | |
Innocence of Nihilism | ISBN 0-9653280-2-3 |
Somewhere Out West | ISBN 0-9653280-5-8 |
Other People | ISBN 0-9653280-9-0 |
Stray Bullets is an independent American comic book series published in black and white (with color covers) by El Capitan Books. It is written and drawn by David Lapham.
The story deals with the often criminal and sometimes tragic misadventures of a large cast of characters and takes place from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.
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The first issue was published in 1995 and followed an irregular publishing schedule through its fortieth issue, which was published in 2005. No new issues have been published since. In a 2007 interview with Michael Lorah for the Newsarama website, Lapham revealed that the series, including the final issue of the current story arc, is on hold indefinitely:
“ | NRAMA : I’ve got to ask, what is the status of El Capitan and Stray Bullets?
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In 2009, a new ten-page story titled, Stray Bullets: Open the Goddamn Box appeared in Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics, an anthology book published by Dark Horse Comics.
There has been an assortment of volumes reprinting the original comic books.
The first three storyarcs in the series were originally collected in large-size hardcovers which were published in a format similar to European comic book collections. Beginning in 2005, the first two of these same storyarcs were published in traditional American comic book size softcover edition:
A fourth arc:
The first 32 issues of the comic book have also been collected in eight softcovers, each of which reprint the contents of four individual issues:
The series has been nominated for numerous awards. Stray Bullets won the 1996 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist, Drama, and the trade paperback collection Stray Bullets: Innocence of Nihilism won the 1997 Eisner Award for "Best Graphic Album-Reprint"[2] the Comic Book Awards Almanac</ref> and was a top votegetter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel/Album for the same year.
Stray Bullets may refer to:
I sit the magazine together with other bullets
And do you really think. My fate is fucked up?
I stifle in the dark chamber. I'm cramped like in an asshole
I will feel like a loser, until they fire me out!
I am a stray bullet, what do you think?
When will I reach you? I am a stray bullet!
Now I'm sitting in your skull
And the plan has been completed
I'll repeat it with no doubt
I'll devour your young heart
I sit in the rifle barrel. I'm embedded perfectly
So hard and slender too. I'm dope clean totally
I'm waiting for my kick. I'm waiting for my kick
I'm waiting for my kick. I'm waiting for my kick
Naughty boy. Where. Do you think
Will I hit you, little prick?
I am a stray bullet, what do you think?
When will I reach you? I am a stray bullet!
Now I'm sitting in your skull
And the plan has been completed
I'll repeat it with no doubt