sin city books by frank miller

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where to begin? theres about a 495890395 of these.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

We have about seven books or so. I liked the first one the best. Personally I'd go for the Big Fat Kill and the Hard Goodbye but all of the books are pretty good. Some are less good contentwise, but stylewise I think they're all very good.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Search: the first one and fourth one. The first one was obviously the starting point of the whole thing, and Miller hadn't yet reverted to repeating the same clichés over and over again. In the fourth book (it's called "The Yellow Bastard", or something like that), he managed to breathe some new air to those clichés. The third one is okay as well.

Destroy: all the others. This comic really shouldn't have continued for as long as it did.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh Tuomas, you're so negative! ;) I agree that he repeated himself, but I still thought they were all pretty good.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

the film is brilliant. really really good. wanna read the books but theyre all a tenner each and am a bit broke right now. plus will be spending a fiver to see the film again anyway. london cinema prices are too expensive these days. oh for the 3.50 charge of my childhood!

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Actually I didn't like the film as much as I expected, maybe cause of the hype. I think my main problem with it was the fact it was Bruce Willis - not that I'm a BW hatah - and the fact the stories weren't *mingled*. Does that make sense? Anyway, I wish you lived here, I would happily lend you all of our copies! :-)

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the offer, i will have to peruse amazon instead though! i liked bruce willis, although now you mentioned him, i cant help seeing that smug hudson hawk expression of his in scenes from sin city! oh dear. im now imagining moonlighting done in a film noir comic book pulpy stylee. the stories werent mingled no, i found that odd. if they partitioned them into three, and maybe announced that they were different stories, i might have liked the film even more, but it was like they stuck 3 diff narratives under the same roof and hoped nobody would notice or would try to find some connecting thread (i have been trying to do this but have not come up with anything. yet).

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

1st one (aka Hard Goodbye) great.

Destroy ALL OTHERS for exact reasons Tuomas cites.

And titchy: http://ilx.p3r.net/newanswers.php?board=62

― Leeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Hey, that's supposed to say:I Love Comics.

― Leeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Natalie about the movie lacking because the individual stories weren't 'mingled'. The seperate climaxes created a disjointed feeling... and then the end lacked the climax that it deserved- so it leaves one with just a 'so-so' feeling. I give it 7 out of 10.

― Auryn (Auryn), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Nathalie - sorry... my sister's name is Natalie, so I just automatically typed it. Sorry.

― Amanda Shaver (Auryn), Sunday, 5 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

No worries! :-)

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

THEY ARE ALL RUB but the first one had some novelty at the time.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Search - the art

Destroy - everything else

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 6 June 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

destroy the art after the first one too. it was most interesting seeing him work out that style over all those eight-page (or whatever) installments, but by the end he'd worked out the schtick and it was diminishing returns ever after. probably. I stopped looking at all when he started doing the spot-colour jobbies (and wasn't sticking short stories in anthologies anymore).

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

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