Product Description: Just one hour to go. Hartigan's polishing his badge and working himself up to kissing it goodbye, it and the thirty-odd years of protecting and serving, tears, blood, and triumph that it represents. He's thinking about his wife's smile, about the thick, fat steaks she's picked up at the butcher's, about the bottle of champagne she's got packed in ice, about sleeping in 'til ten in the morning and spending sunny afternoons flat on his back. But with one hour left to go, he gets word about that one loose end he hasn't tied up: a young girl who's helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic. Just one hour to go ... and Hartigan's gonna go out with a bang.
Amazon.com Review: In a Sin City short story, "The Babe Wore Red," Frank Miller deviated from his stark black-and-white artwork by adding tiny bits of color throughout the story. The girl's dress was red, her lips were red--you get the picture. In That Yellow Bastard, the fourth Sin City graphic novel, Miller's experiment with yellow ink is also a tremendous success. The setup is simple. On the last day before he retires, Hartigan, an old cop, gets a call about an 11-year-old girl who has been kidnapped by a lunatic. Hartigan has got just one more thing to do before he retires: save the girl. Saving her is the easy part, because Hartigan has uncovered something really bad that is not going to stop until it catches up with him. That Yellow Bastard is nerve-racking to the very end.
Major Sacrifices Make Major Heroes Book 4 is by far one of the best Sin City novels. All the other reviewers are right when they say that Hartigan is an amazing character. I won't reveal too much of the story, but the main plot consists of our main character basically throwing his life away, and then some, to save a little girl. For most of us readers, this is an incredibly inspiring tale. I love heroes, who actually set themselves aside to better the worlds of others. That's what all of us in life are able to do anyway. We may not have the superpowers, but we still make hard choices like Hartigan does.
If you wanna get by reading up on one Sin City novel to get a basic summary of the rest, then definately read this one. You will find some of the best work by Frank Miller. And you will want to read more of his novels. I'm not trying to get all emotional and heartfelt, but this is one of those novels that really move you. This is where the power of Sin City lies.
Why you should read this brilliant thing....Like NOW. The best Sin City story yet!
Epic in it's own way (especially in the final confrontation scene, and also has both a haunting enemy and elements reminicent of a good horror or ghost story. As well as a hero who belongs among the ranks of Superman and Beowolf. And Nancy, who seemed only to be an unreachable entity of beauty to many in the series, is finally given a voice.
If you like it Raw, this is the book for you Frank Miller doesn't pull many punches when he writes. I use the word raw to describe his writing because honestly, there is no more appropriate word if you ask me. His characters exist and breathe unapologizingly in the world of Basin City and That Yellow Bastard is way at the top of the best Sin City books for a reason. You have a hero that doesn't have an ounce of quit in him and who's pushed beyond what's even amorally admisible. Hardigan is the type of hero everyone says they would be in a situation such as that but quite frankly, I don't think there exists someone who is as unbreakable as Hardigan. Moral dilemmas don't exist when it comes to saving a kid from a rapist but it all gets way complicated when push comes to shove comes to murder. The beauty of Sin City is that even though it's noir fiction, you can't help but believe these characters, feel their pain, feel their anger and silently nod as some questionable decisions regarding what's right in this world are taken by a hero that shows that being a hero sometimes means not giving a damn and taking your hatred for one Yellow Bastard to the brink of sanity.
Perhaps the best Certainly my favorite of the Sin City "episodes". The selective use of color creates a wonderful tension.
Graphic SF Reader A mostly honest cop close to retirement saves a young girl, foiling the plots of some crooked colleagues and other powerful men. He takes the torture, deprivation and long prison sentence to protect her, revelling in the letters she writes him.
They stop, he is let out. Finding the girl, he realises he has been played, and knows there is only one way to stop the little yellow bastard and company.
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