A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, Book 2: Second Edition)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9781593072940 ISBN: 1593072945 Label: Dark Horse Manufacturer: Dark Horse Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2005-03-16 Publisher: Dark Horse Studio: Dark Horse
Customer review of: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, Book 2: Second Edition) Customer Rating: Summary: As far sa noir can go Comment: If you don't like noir genre, you shouldn't even be bothering yourself with this thing. To answer what exactly makes noir genre so compelling, would take, and don't be mistaken, it took, many written pages. But very few of them would make you change your mind about this genre. It is the kind of writing what was written from fans to fans. No foreigners allowed. And where will one start if he doesn't know anything about noir but still, somehow wants to read and see and learn? Naturally, answer would be wikipeda or some kind of compendium like "The rough guide to noir". Eventually, if interest develops itself to love, one will search for more. In this period of time, we stumble upon Sin City. Sin City is not about vengeance, it's not about crime and senseless shooting, Sin City is hommage for every black and white gangster movie you ever watched, Sin City is direct slap in the face to all colourfull silver-age superheroes, Sin City is beat poetry, adrenaline packed song of Tom Waits, and "Dame to kill for" is marvelous example of what Sin City can be. It is pointless to talk about plot here, or Millers technique in drawing or story-telling. You should be warned, if this is your first trip to Sin City (and I don't see any reason why would you start with issue no. 2 in the series) that Miller's art is something you should grow accustomed to, but somehow it is the exact kind of art that noir story needs. Those of you who already read first Sin City story should know that, "Dame to kill for" beautifully puts itself in the created world. It feels like a piece of giant jigsaw puzzle that slid perfectly into its place. Customer Rating: Summary: Graphic Novel- waste of time Comment: For a recommended author, this story reads poorly and has little merit beyond the "forme noire," that it illustrates. Miller's Batman is clearly better, although it also misses any amusement to life. I don't know who gets in the mood for these types of graphic novels but I emphasize that it makes me feel sorry for its creator. It seems as if Miller got stuck in a development stage more closely associated with demented teenagers that still needs to evolve to a productive life. It seems like a waste of talent that certainly exists behind the selected illustrations. It puts a new negative twist to an otherwise fine film, 300, that he also helped create. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Comic Comment: This is a great comic book. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys great artistic talent and a great storyline. :) Customer Rating: Summary: Graphic SF Reader Comment: Dodgy, deadly dames and manly male meatheads. Well, Dwight is not as dumb as all that, but he pretty much falls hook, line and sinker for the old slinking femme fatale routine. Those damned pheromones and all. All is not as it seems, except for the hulking psycho bodyguard type. He is exactly what he seems. Customer Rating: Summary: "There's a word for what I am." Comment: There is a word for people like Ava Lord. Evil. I have read my share of crime noir, including Dashiell Hammett and Jean-Patrick Manchette, and can say that nothing by those writers comes close to the epitome of femme fatale like Ava. Destroying some men for money, others simply for fun, she is a Jungian archetype in graphic representation. She makes A DAME TO KILL FOR, in my opinion, one of the best books in the Sin City series. She is also both the dream and the nightmare of Dwight McCarthy. Ava enters his life once again and, despite his better judgment, Dwight finds that he cannot resist her charms. Of course, just as he suspects, it is all a ruse. He is being used like any other man unfortunate enough to catch Ava's attention and winds up suckered into killing an innocent man. This time, however, Dwight realizes enough is enough. With the help of Marv, the anti-hero of THE HARD GOODBYE, he decides to put an end to the one-woman wrecking ball's game. It is not an easy or pretty task, complicated all the more by Manute, a ruthless giant absolutely loyal to Ava. But the results are enough to maintain the reader's interest until the end. If one only wanted to sample the best of Sin City, A DAME TO KILL FOR would make the short list.
Editorial Reviews: It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. 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 cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time. And then Ava calls.
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