Sin City
1996
- organized crime
- man-woman relationships
- delitos
- crime
- muñequitos, tiras cómicas, etc
- street life
- police corruption
- muñequitos, tiras cómicas
- sin city (imaginary place)
- murder
The story
This volume was published as an original graphic novel in October 1997 (vol. 5). This volume collects Sin City stories originally published from 1994 to 1998 in The babe wore red and other stories; San Diego comic-con comics #4; Silent night; A decade of Dark Horse #1; Lost, lonely, & lethal; Sex & violence; and Just another Saturday night (vol. 6). This volume collects issues one through nine of the Dark Horse comic book series Sin City: Hell and back, originally published between July 1999 and April 2000 (vol. 7). This volume was originally published in 2002. The gallery section has been added for this special edition, featuring pinup art originally published in Sin City: The big fat kill; That yellow bastard; Lost, lonely, & lethal; Sex & violence; and Hell and back (The art of Sin City).
What it’s like
Hard-edged noir rendered in stark black and white, with the white space doing most of the work: ink so heavy that rain-slicked streets, cigarette smoke and neon signs appear as flat voids cut with slivers of light. Frank Miller's panels are built like film noir shots, with low angles, deep shadows, and a single splash of colour now and then, which makes the book feel like a silent black-and-white film flickering through a city that never sleeps. Its voice is hard-boiled narration in clipped, wry captions, and the mood is bleak, violent and sardonically funny, with a dread that sits under every corner. Violence is frequent and graphic: shootings, beatings, dismemberment and gore, along with sexual content and nudity that is often brutal or exploitative. This is not gentle reading. It suits a late night alone, a rainy evening with the lights off, or someone wanting moody genre fiction. It is for readers who enjoy pulp crime, bold graphic design and an unflinching, cynical portrait of corruption and street life.
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