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    <body><![CDATA[If only boobs really looked like Frank Miller thinks they do . . . I would love boobs SO MUCH.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About ten pages into this, I commented to Erica that &quot;I forgot Frank Miller used to know how to draw.&quot;  That's my first and most lasting impression of this trade, the fact that before he lost his anatomy books and gave way to caricatures-as-commentary, Miller was a damned good writer and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20000806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Hard Goodbye&quot; is one of the plotlines featured in the &quot;Sin City&quot; movie, and it's done well there.  That said, the graphic novel is fantastic.  Tough-guy Marv falls for the beautiful Goldie, only to wake up next to her corpse the next day.  He ruthlessly hunts down her killer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3030545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh.  I really wanted to like this one, since it's Frank Miller and Sin City and all, but I didn't, really.  I will admit that I found the art stunning.  The black and white was gorgeous, and the fact that the movie version followed the visuals of the graphic novel so closely is probably why I found ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74658160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm coming at this as an avid fan of the movie. As the movie apperas hyper-faithful, I have no complaints and feel justified in my appreciation for the series in two mediums. If you like/hate one, you'll like/hate the other.<br/><br/>As to my interest in Feminist criticisms of Frank Miller ... yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53028132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the Sin City movie was great, when I watched it on DVD in 2007... Since then, the wait for Sin City 2 has been a bit of a pain. (OK, I don't agonise about it every second, but it would be nice to see.) I've flirted with reading the graphic novels on several occasions, until I finally got a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75674924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of the Sin City series. Frank Miller gets this series off to a great start with &quot;The Hard Goodbye.&quot;<br/><br/>The protaganist, Marv, is a huge, ugly, brutish idiot who is not quite a good guy or a bad guy. But he's the kind of guy you root for the entire time as he tries...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50375951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what it is about this story, but it's my favorite so far. The author managed to make me feel so bad for Marv, it might be because of the simplistic way he refers to his mental disorder ex. &quot;i get confused&quot; or the fact that he really isn't a bad guy just a little off.  Who know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47421029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I watched th film first and had high expectations for Miller's novels, especially The Hard Goodbye, the story containing my favourte character in the film, Marv.  I am sad to say I was a little disapointed.<br/><br/>The graphics are beautiful enough.  Page after page of large, detailed illustation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53106659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone needs a good pulp novel every once in a while. This book is a great scratch for that itch. Sin City is a dark and harrowing trip through Basin City - a metropolis replete with pimps, corrupt cops, murderers, psychos, sociopaths, liars, killers, thieves, deception, and even a few actual hero...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7289305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently after seeing his writing get twisted and abused on the unfortunate Robocop films, Frank Miller swore off Hollywood and decided to devote himself back to what he did best - his comics.  It was in this angry fugue that Miller created two works so bloody and violent he felt safe knowing they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3785493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I had to read this since everyone seemed to be raving about/have it at the top of their list of graphic novels to read.  However, I had mixed feelings about it myself.  First of all, I have to say...I am not a huge huge crime novel fan.  That genre is not something I run to...though Walter Mos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2885019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book gets submitted with no rating because I can't decide how I really felt about it.  The visual style is amazing.  What Miller can do with simple black-and-white art shows what an excellent story-teller he is.  However, I was really turned off by the over-the-top (not in a campy way) violence...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45840475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['Sin City' doesn't seem as cool to me as it used to.  While I like the movie somewhat and enjoy the comics somewhat, these stories aren't as mature and interesting as people like to think they are.  Really what the 'Sin City' stories ultimately end up being is film-noir chic decked out with juvenile...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27005801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic first volume, I really wish I would have read these when they were originally released but unfortunately I wasn't a Dark Horse Comics fan so I didn't even know they existed until the movie came out.  The style oozes awesomeness and Marv is one of the most badass characters in comics.  Don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39338990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The artwork's gorgeous.  The story's gritty, noirish, yet emotionally in tune.  I'm a big fan of the movie, and this graphic novel is, quite frankly, the best I've read.  There's a real edge in here.  Beautifully rendered.  (And NO exposition through dialogue - wonderful).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun, fast read, and I was happy to see that it did diverge in a couple places from the Sin City movie, so there were a couple small plot points that were new.  I'm looking forward to checking out some of the volumes that were not drawn on to produce the movie.]]></body>
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