Dark Horse Comics, $2.95
Short Review: Three typical Sin City Stories. The big one's even got a plot
The first story of these three is a four-page story of Justice, Sin City style, with a nice repeated motif. The second is a 3-page attempt at noir something or other, ruined by Miller's habit of writing descriptive captions in a gritty style, i.e. lots of short sentences. It also features Frank Miller Patented Sheets Of Rain (tm). These two stories, together with the last, come with the caveat that if you don't dig Miller's Black and White art style, you can just forget it. The art is generally the best thing about these.
The title story is the largest, taking up 24 of the 31 pages, and is the only one to break out of the B&W format, with the addition of red. Not for the blood, you understand, which is still black, but for the babe. Lips, dress, shoes and nails, all red. It's a very potent symbolism; red for blood, red for danger, and if our hero has any sense, red for stop. But he's soft for the dames, and this one stands out like, well like a splash of red in a black and white comic. The plot of the with explanations afterwards. It's still what Frank Miller seems to do, best these days, and he really does it well.
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