Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Frank Miller

Advantages: An interesting read and artwork
Disadvantages: May not be quite your style

...Frank Miller strikes again, this is one of the more unusual graphic novels that you will find as it contains no colour and all of the pictures are just pure black and white, not even shades of grey. You may think that this style of artwork is not very good when compared to Frank Miller’s other works that have full colour, but strange as it may seem it works. The story is very film noir where you will find dames not women and all the men are gritty and tough and the plot, as is the artwork, is simple. It is about Marv who as ugly as he seems gets to go to bed with the lovely Goldie. He wakes up the next day to find her dead and the story tells us about his retribution on the people who did it. This is one of those books where you will find no middle ground, people either love it or loath it, I love it.... Read review

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Advantages: A classy tale of crime and retribution
Disadvantages: Oh ok it IS a comic book

...back to a page in an earlier work and in the background see a scene from a future story. This is obviously a labour of love by Miller and the time and effort he has put in really rewards the reader. I looked for the cons in this book and there really is only one, it is as the end of the day, a comic book, which turns a lot of people off. I understand this, however if you have ever considered buying a comic book, maybe because like me you liked escaping into the alternate worlds of Dan Dare or Tank Girl as a kid then I can recommend this title. If I haven’t convinced you feel free to include me on your personal list of saddoes, but please put me further down the list than the big train-spotting gnome! Sin City By Frank Miller published by Titan Books costs about £7.99 and is available in the Sci-Fi Fantasy section of most bookshops like... Read review

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Advantages: Incredible art work
Disadvantages: Overlong

...Anyone familiar to Frank Miller's Sin City series of graphic novels will already know just how good it is. Those of you that first caught Sin City in the film version have not yet seen the best version out there. Yes, while most of the shots in the film are taken from the graphic novels directly (in fact, the books were used as storyboards), there was something lacking from the film. A certain sense of humour that seemed to make jokes of the characters even during their darkest moments ruined the film for many fans of the original books, who loved Sin City for its twisted take on the criminal underworlds of 40s noir film-making. All of you that saw the film and enjoyed it in any way (even if you just liked the nice colour bits!) should pick up the books (seven in total), and revel in what they were intended to be. That Yellow... Read review

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