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Summary: You don't know the power of the Dark Side...
Review: With the Force as my guide, I picked up this book. And damn! I'm extremely impressed!
I've heard a lot of people rave about Frank Miller, and this was the first of his works I've been exposed to. The story revolves around a guy named Marv that we can all somehow relate with. His goal is to avenge the death of a woman, the only woman who gave a guy like him a night to remember. This story is dark. It's not something I expected, violent and showing the dark side of humanity, but damn if it isn't great! If you have any doubts about Sin City, extinguish them now, and buy this book!
And for the record, the black and white noir art is amazing!!!
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Summary: Marv makes the book.
Review: When I get too depressed with the Way Things Are I get this graphic novel out. I've never found it to be shocking or upsetting. To me it is inspiring. I see where some readers have trouble with the violence, the settings, the attitude. Well kids, good luck with the real world....
It is Marv that makes the book. Marv isn't a saint and he isn't a rocket scientist. Sometimes he just gets "confused"- especially when he stops taking his medication. But there is one area where Marv never gets confused, and that is in recognising Good and Evil, Right and Wrong. Yet, this isn't some shallow Hollywood morality play used to justify gratuitous violence. Marv is the soul of morality- the morality that counts. Here is a man who will hunt down those responsible for burning winos and bums to death simply to avenge the injustice. Here is a man who will walk into the jaws of hell to rescue a small child from white slavers simply because it wouldn't occure to him to do otherwise. Here is a man who gives his help to those who need it, simply because they need it, no matter how monstrous or powerful the opposition. Simply put, here is a MAN.
When my final moment on earth comes, I just hope that I have a line as good as Marv's: "That the best you can do, you pansies?"
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Summary: Not for the squeamish
Review: Fans of Frank Miller will not be disappointed here. The artwork is stark and powerful, you just want to drink each panel in. Marv is an amazingly complex character: repulsive and sympathetic at the same time. This is gritty stuff--I'm not usually a fan of such extreme violence, but even that fact couldn't prevent me from enjoying this compelling story. Frank Miller is brilliant, as usual.
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Summary: The Best Volume in the Sin City series
Review: This is the first and best volume in the series. Great, stark, black & white artwork. The rest of the series are okay, but Miller doesn't seem to really put the effort into them as he has done with this yarn. Miller must not have done a lot of preliminary sketches for Sin City because you can see the visualization of Marv, the title character evolve as the story progresses. He becomes more massive and Hulk-ish and the violence increases. Miller did the same thing with THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. THe visual image of the character seems to be fleshed out as the story goes on. I think this shows the lack of drawing preparation on Miller's part. Not important to the story, but I find it interesting to point out. ~john
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Summary: Comic Books Aren't Just For Kids Anymore
Review: I've read many reviews that have invested grand arguments comparing Frank Miller's seminal SIN CITY to the works of Raymond Chandler, and I think they're missing the point. While the storylines might bare a passing resemblance to Chandler's, the hard-edged dime-novel prose smacks more of Mickey Spillane with a half-bottle of Jack Daniels in him. The images are stark (the book is done entirely in black and white), the material is adult-oriented, and the tale is wickedly perverse ... just the way Mike Hammer would like 'em. While Miller has also been lauded for his work with Batman (THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS), I think his SIN CITY work stands as a far greater example of how comics have grown up over the past two decades.
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Summary: Sinfully Delicious
Review: Frank Miller sure knows how to both write and draw an awesome book. In a town practically owned by prostitutes Marv, a real nasty customer, is framed for the murder of a prostitute and he decides to find out who did it. As Marv unravels the mystery he must face a seemingly emotionless serial killer, Various thugs and some prostitutes whose leader looks awfully familiar. Is there anyway Marv can survive this city. The answer might shock you.
Frank Miller refuses to pull punches with his first tale of the the city that sin built and by my opinion it's my favourite. The characters are likable SOBs, or in the villains' case unlikable SOBs. The use of shadows and light is very effective and engaing, while giving the comic a very special feel that would be ruined by using a rainbow of colors. Hell, I wonder is Basin City ever gets rainbows. Though it doesn't have the feel of an epic poem that "the Dark Knight Returns had, it is definately a very solid and exciting tale of revenge.
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Summary: Check it out now, bust a groove, SIN, CHARACTER?
Review: The art in this title is amazing. The plot was very cool. The characterization however could have been a lot better. Marv seemed to be innconsistant. He would jump back from idiot to to fearless barbarian to cowering child to long winded narrator. I didn't get Marv, in his stupid obssesive barbarian mode he shines but all others he annoys. If Marv had been more consistant this would be a 4 1/2 star book. If the rest of the characters had more character(Goldie, Roark) a 5 star book. Art was very unique and the plot was fun yet Miller should have spent more time on the characters and narration. The narration was lacking. Most will still enjoy but maybe not fall in love. Check out "Kabuki: Circle of Blood" by David Mack.
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Summary: Visualmente y narrativamente perfecto
Review: Es la historia poco convencional de un antihéroe que encontró el amor, lo perdió y decidió desquitarse. Vengar la muerte de su amada se convierte en la única meta del cerebro arruinado de un protagonista musculoso y estúpido. En ese trance vivirá situaciones sacadas de la imaginación más obscura del maestro Miller. Canibalismo, sadismo, drogas, homosexualismo... ¿cuántos pecados pueden caber en una ciudad que en su nombre lleva la penitencia? No te pierdas este libro bajo ninguna circunstancia.
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Summary: ORIGINAL SIN CITY IS ONE OF THE BEST
Review: The first SIN CITYgraphic novel is one of the best, Miller gives us an antisocial brute named Marv as his protagonist and actually makes him interesting.The violene ,though bizarre attimes,is well staged and not merely there to shock us.He also uses his first novel in the series to set Basin city up as an iconic place; I see it as literally being a city of sin or hell on earth so very little of what conventionally would be called good would exist there. Sometimes Miller stretches the iconic nature of his milieu and it degenerates into nihilsm as in BIG FAT KILL but this book avoids that. It is both reasonable that Marv gets revenge and is punished for his vigilantism which lacks the heroic elements that Hartigan and Wallace display in later SIN CITY novels. A GREAT COMICS NOVEL!
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Summary: Comics Noir 101 w/ Frank Miller
Review: Marv, our protagonist, is a force of nature. Brutish, ugly, a man who has had a hard life and it shows. His one night of passion with a beautiful woman is destroyed by her murder. He decides to set things right. That's the story in a nutshell. Combine it with Miller's designs and you start to enter a new territory of graphic novel. The stunning visuals offset the rather bizarre story and you have a feast for the eyes. The novel has a visceral impact, you can't quite forgive the strange plot but you can't stop looking.
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