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Sin City Volume 2: A Dame to Kill For (3rd Edition) [Paperback]

Frank Miller
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March 1, 2005 Sin City (Book 2)
The second volume of Frank Miller's signature series is now planned as the lead story in the upcoming Sin City 2! This newly redesigned edition sports a new cover by Miller - some of his first comics art in years! Stuck with nothing but a seedy gumshoe job and some demons, Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to feel the fire. One more time. But he can't let himself lose control again, can't ever let the monster out. And then Ava calls. With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller's masterpiece!

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Because of a shocking ending to the first Sin City book, many people wondered how successful Frank Miller could be with future tales of his no-holds-barred city noir. Enter Dwight McCarthy, a clean-living photographer who tries to avoid trouble because he knows what he's capable of. His tactics don't do him much good when a girl from his past (who he can't say no to) shows up and professes her love for him. When he finds out she's in way over her head, it looks as though trouble has found him. What's going to happen? You guessed it: people get hurt. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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www aintitcoolnews.com: " Dare I say the most perfect depictions of noir in illustrated literature form? yes indeedy..." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Dark Horse (March 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593072945
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593072940
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Frank Miller is one of the seminal creative talents who sparked the current gigantic sub-industry of motion pictures featuring comic book- initiated product. A sub-industry which had become a super-industry. This most profitable aspect of this millennium's film production, now producing an annual flow of box office profits in the Billions of dollars, was launched when Frank Miller's graphic novel re-take on the classic comic book hero, Batman, resulted in an entertainment industry-wide reconsideration of the genre in the deeper and darker vision Miller brought to it.

Miller re-defined the presentation of comic book characters and heroic fiction with his grand-daddy of graphic novels, "The Dark Knight." This revolutionary work
not only kicked off the series of Batman films based on his redefinition, but a craze for such material that has thrown dozens of such heroes into multiple film franchise heaven. Certainly chief among these has been Miller's uniquely classical take on superheroic narrative, "300," and his "Sin City" books, each of which entered motion pictures with historic successes, and each now in Miller's creative phase of achieving its highly-anticipated sequel. Miller's co-direction of "Sin City" has made him one of the hottest
directors... as well as a guiding creative force...for the new genre. Or one might say "super genre."

Miller's latest graphic novel, Holy Terror, is his first original graphic novel in ten years. Join The Fixer, a brand new, hard-edged hero as he battles terror in the inaugural release from Legendary Comics.

Customer Reviews

A DAME TO KILL FOR is the second Sin City story. D. Crawford  |  20 reviewers made a similar statement
I was really sad to see him die in the first book. Joseph Dewey  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
The story is great, the dialogue is great, the characters are great. Tom Benton  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Love and death and grey all over... April 10, 2005
Format:Paperback
Sin City may be black ink on white paper, but it's nothing without the grey. The characters in this book are grey--all over.

A Dame to Kill For is the story of Dwight. Dwight is a good guy with 2 bad habits--booze & broads. But he's sober now. He's taking great pictures of husbands doing nasty things to women who aren't their wives in order to make a living as a private-eye. Dwight is damaged, but on the mend--until Ava shows up. Then it all gets messy. Really messy.

This is the 2nd tale of Sin City and about mid-way through the story Marv, the star of the first book, makes a guest appearance. This book stands completely on its own from book 1 (The Hard Goodbye). However, Marv's story in The Hard Goodbye begins to intertwine with Dwight's and Miller throws in a few cameos for those who read The Hard Goodbye.

This is probably my favorite Sin City yarn. I love them all, but in my opinion creator Frank Miller found his stride in book 1 then ran with it in spades with this book.

And for those folks delving into the world of Sin City because of the 2005 film, this book will be a special treat cuz it's the prequel to Dwight's story in The Big Fat Kill, in which Clive Owen, Michael Clarke Duncan & Rosario Dawson starred in the 2005 film. Do yourself a favor and throw down the cash for this book now. Trust me, $12 is peanuts for the all entertainment packed in these pages.
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25 of 32 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A Gritty Stroll Down the Dark End of the Street April 27, 2000
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In 1986, Frank Miller ushered in a new age in comic writing and illustration with his landmark "Batman: The Dark Night Returns." A couple of years later, he reinvented the form again with his gritty return to Daredevil. To almost no one's surprise, Miller completely retooled the medium with his take on film noir in "Sin City".

How radical was this alteration in Miller's artistic vision?

In a world of garish, computer-derived colors, Miller constructed a world of broad swaths of black ink. In a medium dominated increasingly by splash pages linked by plots beneath the sophistication level of your average porno movie, Miller delivered a compelling satire of modern urban existence. In an industry increasingly convinced of its own sociological significance, Miller crafts a tale so over-the-top in its violent imagery as to eradicate any claim to stature amongst the Starbucks set.

How do you follow up the outstanding statement that was "Sin City"?

You don't.

"A Dame to Kill For" finds Miller clearly less infatuated with the vision that fairly screamed from his pen in the prior tale. The art, while still visually stunning in places and always crafted with a cinematic flair, seems somehow rushed here, as though the languid love affair he previously had with his imagery has cooled to a Thursday night quickie.

The plot involves a sleazy photographer whose past returns to haunt him in horrific fashion. As in the best film noir, nothing is as it initially seems, motives are rarely clear, and the hero takes a terrific beating along the way to both body and sensibility. Unfortunately, Miller's portrayal of the villain here is less nuanced than his past work, detracting from the psychological reality he is apparently trying to convey.

This is an eminently forgivable sin in the noir world. Did anyone truly believe that Bogart's Spade really wouldn't pack Mary Astor off to the big house at the end of "The Maltese Falcon"? Did anyone not find the melodramatic finale to "D.O.A." to ultimately ring hollow? Not likely, but neither did this diminish these films' stature as classics of the noir genre; after all, the noir world is in the final analysis a distorted vision of our own painted solely from the duskier hues of the palette.

While not a story to die for as was "Sin City", "A Dame to Kill For" is still a story well worth your time.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It's another hot night... March 21, 2005
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This is Frank Miller's second Sin City story. While it doesn't quite match The Hard Goodbye, it's a damn fine example of comics noir in it's own right. The lead character this time around is Dwight, but fans of Marv will be pleased to know that he shows up here in a supporting role. This story takes place prior to, and concurrently with, "The Hard Goodbye". In fact, you can see Marv enacting some scenes from "The Hard Goodbye" in the background of panels here. Anyway, the story is about how Dwight's ex-girlfriend Ava comes and asks him for help. I don't want to give away the story, but it may seem a bit familiar to fans of film noir. Despite what may seem like a predictable storyline, I loved it because it is so well told and the art is beautiful. This is not one of the stories that is being adapted for the Sin City motion picture, but the sequel to this book, The Big Fat Kill is in the movie.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Great story. Can't wait to see that movie. Will definitely continue to read the series. Josh Brolin though? I don't know about that.
Published 2 months ago by kyle brown
3.0 out of 5 stars Great content, but size is smaller than original editions from early...
Beware, these editions are about 30% smaller size L X W" than the original editions from early 90s that i still have to compare with. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Happy customer
Showed up on time and was exactly as described. My son enjoyed the story who could ask for more ;;[]
Published 5 months ago by Wendy Carney
4.0 out of 5 stars I'm a sucker for a happy ending
This provides it.

Panel view remains a good way to read a graphic novel and my Kindle seems made for it. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dennis Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars A book to kill for
It's hard to give a summary of the story without making it sound cheesy and stereotypical with far too much macho action, because the book, and series even, is all of those things... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Noel
4.0 out of 5 stars Grimy and Sexy
Sinister. Sexy. I love this volume because it is both those things in abundance. The characters are volatile, unpredictable, manipulative and deadly and Sin City itself is dark and... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Anna Clare
5.0 out of 5 stars A Sin City high note
A DAME TO KILL FOR is the second Sin City story. It follows in the footsteps of the original story predecessor SIN CITY (subsequently renamed THE HARD GOODBYE) and, storywise,... Read more
Published 15 months ago by D. Crawford
2.0 out of 5 stars Frank Miller drags his sorry excuse for a story into another graphic...
Perhaps the greatest crime against literature happened when Frank Miller was allowed to (with full studio backing) write and direct The Spirit as a movie. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Ricky Pooski
4.0 out of 5 stars sin city volume 3
no photo presented and was represented as a graphic novel instead of paperback, but disappointment upon receipt was allayed after review and examination of product, concerning... Read more
Published 21 months ago by mjphyjr
4.0 out of 5 stars More wild times in the city of Sin
More wild times in the city of Sin

Ava Lord is the classic Black Widow -- a woman with a genius for being the ideal partner for strong, rich men, then destroying them. Read more
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