Product Description: Criminals have always called the shots in Sin City, whether bootleggers, gamblers, or politicians. But ever since the first dame set up shop in Old Town, those side-streets have been run by the women who walk the night. It's been a delicate truce, but now there's a messy body and the mob's looking to reclaim those licentious streets. They're going to have to put down a tight band of dangerous women and a guy named Dwight to do it. Now Dwight, he knows something that the mob's gotta learn the hard way: sometimes standing up for your friends means killing a whole lot of people...
Amazon.com Review: With The Big Fat Kill Frank Miller is at it again with another comics packed with guns, lovers, losers, and surprises. In Sin City's Old Town, the prostitutes run the show. "The cops stay out. That leaves the girls free to keep the pimps and the mob out." Sounds like an OK place, right? It is until a pushy, loud-mouthed guy who has had one too many drinks comes into Old Town and gets himself killed by the ladies. When they find out who he is, they realize that "it'll be war. The streets will run red with blood. Women's blood."
big fat kill is big fat let down. The book was delievered in a timely fashion,and i know it said slightly used but some one put white-out on all the nipple shots.UNCOOL.
The Dark Dwight Returns! The return of Dwight and the arrival of Miho is a great story. I happened to see the film before I read this so the book was very easy to read, and unfortunately I wish I didn't know the ending. That being said, I'm going to further reccomend reading books before the film adaptation. Book 2 (not included in the film) had a very larger effect on me because I hadn't witnessed the epic story beforehand. Furthermore, this volume is really awesome, and I'm lucky that they made a great adaptation of it, so that I just saw the comic come to life, instead of the comic transform and cut and paste into film.
You won't find much new stuff aside from the film, but you will still enjoy seeing the "adventure" on panels. I suggest reading it after not seeing the film for awhile, that way you won't be speaking dialogue before its read. So far I've liked book 2 the best, but 1 & 3 are about equal in value. Thank you Frank Miller!
Hurry up with the movie! One of the most entertaining graphic novels I've read. It's not "Watchmen" caliber storytelling but it has enough twists and turns and action to keep fingers turning the pages.
The big question is: Where's the movie adaptation? We've been waiting four years for it now. C'mon, Rodriguez and co. Get Mickey Rourke back while his career's in an upswing!
The ballad of Dwight and Miho Deadly Little Miho -- the spry, bustiered female samurai fond of dismembering her victims -- is the featured warrior in this, the third volume in Frank Miller's deliciously ultraviolent Sin City series. Miho joins rugged, dog-loyal Dwight, fresh from his Volume II facelift, as he defends a mouthy barmaid paramour from a gang of vicious thugs.
There's not much of a story here -- Dwight and the girls need to stop a gang from bringing a certain gruesome "prize" to the cops that would shatter the truce between them and the be-leathered girls of Old Town. Much mayhem ensues, including beheadings, be-handings and alley gunfights. The scowling gals are as ageless, gorgeous, scantily clad, martial and good-hearted as ever. The good guys are hulking, lovesick hunks with lots of romantic history behind them. Weirdly, for all the bare flesh and wild outfits, Sin City III is remarkably unsexy. It's not easy, I guess, to get worked up over S&M gear with so much blood and gore splashing about. But Frank Miller's characters and situations are (mostly) indelible. I do find it hard to keep the bevy of ladies straight in my mind. But a plot that includes dumping bodies into the La Brea tar pits, a bad guy with a gun barrel stuck in his forehead, and a certain young acrobatic Asian lady plunging sabers through a car roof (and into the faces of the occupants) is hard to forget.
Miller's work is deliberately politically incorrect. His men are unforgivably too fond of slapping the dames around. And his ladies are overly fond of stripping and bedding down with the seedy denizens of the city. This all fits in with the gritty cross between 1940s film noir and stripper chic. Your call whether this is an attraction or deterrent. But Miller's storytelling is so taut that a second read is almost always necessary to catch all the juicy little twists. Great reading if you can stand the heat.
The soothing sounds of BRAKA BRAKA BRAK Third book in the deliciously sinister series created by Frank Miller. If you've ever heard the phrase "They had it coming to them" and agreed, you should definitely read this book. If anything is great of this decidely Noir series is that all heroes in this series make you nod in approval in regards to bloody murder. That's the magic of Frank Miller, he puts situations which are obviously not conforming to society or what we deem as correct and spins it in a light that makes you not only acquiesce but root for hookers and murderers. If that's not talent I don't know what is. So how fat is the Big Fat Kill? Did you see seven, that first guy who was fed to death? Well add another ton or so. This series and this book is not for the weak of heart or stomach. Now if you do have the required like for gore necessary for this series, you will find yet another tale of alluringly torrid happenings in a city that makes Gotham look like a Winter Wonderland. Basin City... Population fluctuates and declines with every book.
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