LOST, LONELY, & LETHAL, the title of
Frank Miller's latest Sin City comic, seems to describe his state
of mind, at least judging from his paranoid ramblings on the
letters pages. Some time after he wrote the comic geeks' answer
to Ulysses, Batman: the Dark Knight Returns, Frank became
convinced the entire industry was designed to crush the lofty
talents of its scribes and scriveners, and that he was their potential
Savior. To this end, apparently, he has been writing, drawing,
inking and pretty much running the whole show with his film-noir
styled series of crime and naked ladies stories. The first Sin
City story cycle (now available in hardcover and softcover editions),
called simply Sin City, had everything you could want in
a genre tale: It was suspenseful, the main character was engagingly
good-hearted and stupid, the villain was beyond evil and the dames
were, as they say, nicely stacked. However, this formula quickly
grew thin. In the following series the reliance on women in fishnet
leisure wear became a bit obvious. Nonetheless, it's probably
still worth a look, even if just to see Miller's black-of-night
inking style, which gives the comic much of its filmic feel.
LOST, LONELY, & LETHAL, the title of
Frank Miller's latest Sin City comic, seems to describe his state
of mind, at least judging from his paranoid ramblings on the
letters pages. Some time after he wrote the comic geeks' answer
to Ulysses, Batman: the Dark Knight Returns, Frank became
convinced the entire industry was designed to crush the lofty
talents of its scribes and scriveners, and that he was their potential
Savior. To this end, apparently, he has been writing, drawing,
inking and pretty much running the whole show with his film-noir
styled series of crime and naked ladies stories. The first Sin
City story cycle (now available in hardcover and softcover editions),
called simply Sin City, had everything you could want in
a genre tale: It was suspenseful, the main character was engagingly
good-hearted and stupid, the villain was beyond evil and the dames
were, as they say, nicely stacked. However, this formula quickly
grew thin. In the following series the reliance on women in fishnet
leisure wear became a bit obvious. Nonetheless, it's probably
still worth a look, even if just to see Miller's black-of-night
inking style, which gives the comic much of its filmic feel.
