Frank Miller's Sin City. Hell and Back

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"This volume collects issues one through nine of the Dark Horse comic book series Sin City: Hell and back"--Indicia.

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Sin City Vol 7 submitted by Caser on August 10, 2011, 4:48pm An artist who is also a deadly ex-Marine saves a beautiful girl from drowning, only to have her kidnapped from his very arms that night. Wallace is as deadly as Marv and Dwight from previous books, but he does give his victims fair warning, and they're almost always asking for it. I suppose that makes him a touch more sensitive.

The on-page violence is as compelling as Yellow Bastard and as imaginative as Family Values, and though I didn't find Wallace's ultimate motive as believable as some of the other stories. After all, he only just met the suicidal Esther a few hours before, and she isn't a child like Nancy, but if you get past that point, the rest is pure Miller fun. I liked the mystery of who's behind Esther's kidnapping and the lack of apparent motive on the bad guys' part until later in the book. Wallace's hallucination sequence is also good fun, as Miller nods not only to other books in the series, but to other comic heroes as well. A fine way to end Sin City.