Product Description: Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the ultimate robot killing machine - and the last hope of the future's enslaved mechanical servants. And they're all the same psychotic entity.
Good for those new to comics. Not the greatest piece of comic book writing, but Geof Darrow's art is unbelievable. If you have read many comics before, the story is just good, better than mid-grade. If you have not, this will get you sucked into the medium.
It is like you are reading a great 1980s scifi movie. Overcoat hero that kills religiously turns out to have a dark secret about himself.
Forgettable Story, Awesome Art I love Miller's work and this is no expection. This comic is to graphic novels what short stories are to novels. You're thrown right in the middle of a story, given no backplot, and then the story ends still somewhat in the middle.
Nothing wrong with that, just leaves you wanting more!
In addition to a great comic, the book is just great art in general. If I had my way, I would press a limited wordless edition, in the same fashion as House. Sadly, I'm not the publisher.
Buy it, its a fun quick read.
An awesome experience. Frank Miller's Hard Boiled is lots of fun. It's a really short story, but it's a very good one at that. Hard Boiled takes place in a bizarre future, very bizarre. The art is breathtaking, it makes what to scan over each page to make sure you're not missing a little joke. Fulled with hardcore violence that makes you laugh in wonder, Hard Boiled is a weird graphic novel but it's surely another awesome story by Frank Miller. I hope you enjoy this book!
Nifty Haven't bought a comic in a while. Hollywood, having finally admited to running out of ideas has turned to the great and ultra-cool comics (Hellboy, Sin City, V for Vendetta, etc) in order to make some dough, has once again sparked my interest in graphic novels. I bought this one based soley on the art and was not dissapointed.
The ultra-violence can get a bit tedious (If you like tons of bloody naked people getting mauled by flaming vehicles....then prepare for your boat to float), but overall its not a bad read.
The story is ok. Not amazing but interesting never-the-less.
The cool thing about this book is the illustration. Which, is a virtual "Where's Waldo" of advertising icons, naked people, drug parephanilia, blood, and robots. Folks who say you can reread this a few times just to look at the amazing detail are telling it to you straight.
One Hell of a Ride The artwork alone will blow you away.
Loosely based on the same story that inspired "Blade Runner," this book is an irreverant thrill-ride from start to finish. Every page is a masterwork of illustration, and the detail is beyond belief.
It's classic Miller, with over-the-top violence, coupled with a disenfranchized cynicism that writers often imitate but can't duplicate. In this book, he masters the use of understatement, recognizing exactly when to step aside and let the art speak for itself.
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