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Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City #2)
by
Frank Miller
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...more
Paperback, Second Edition, 208 pages
Published
March 16th 2005
by Dark Horse
(first published 1994)
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The end of my review for Volume 1 was "It's great stuff, I hope the rest is even close to being this good." Fortunately, I was not a bit disappointed.
This time around, we follow Dwight, a man who had a great fall and has tried to live a better life, albeit one that still deals in the smut and dirty-dealing of life in Sin City and its environs. When a woman from his past comes back with one hell of a sob story, will he stay strong? Or fall right back into the abyss he thoug...more
This time around, we follow Dwight, a man who had a great fall and has tried to live a better life, albeit one that still deals in the smut and dirty-dealing of life in Sin City and its environs. When a woman from his past comes back with one hell of a sob story, will he stay strong? Or fall right back into the abyss he thoug...more
It seems that Sin City is populated by noir stereotypes. All the men are plagued with aggression and will do anything for a dame, while all the women are calculating and trade sex for favours. With this in mind, I like to think that everyone who reads these books can have a laugh and consider how hyper-real Sin City actually is - the notion that the clear male/female dichotomy is something to be learned, might be a frightening one.
However, when viewed as the stylised hyper-reality th...more
However, when viewed as the stylised hyper-reality th...more
Frank Miller may be the ultimate storyboard artist. His comics are stark black and white sketches with little dialogue involved. The plot is laid out like a basic outline and there’s nothing wrong with that, but by no means does he deserve the genius tag some people give him.
“A Dame To Kill For” is a pretty cool drink of noir erotica, but it’s pretty stark stuff and not too deep. Not bad, but nothing that’ll frighten the horses..
“A Dame To Kill For” is a pretty cool drink of noir erotica, but it’s pretty stark stuff and not too deep. Not bad, but nothing that’ll frighten the horses..
The Sin City movie is literally the only film in the huge mass of comic book movies that have been made lately that is an improvement on the graphic novels. I enjoy Frank Miller's signature art style, all the black drips and angles, but his writing is just terrible. Lines that were charmingly campy and over-the-top in the movie, are juvenile and awkward in print.
Willem van den Oever
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‘A Dame To Kill For’ is in almost every way a lot of steps up from Miller’s previous chapter in his Sin City-series. While ‘The Hard Goodbye’ gave us a city and its theme, the second novel takes these themes and expands on them with steady confidence and tight storytelling. Miller seems to be completely at ease in this messed up neo-noir world he’s created and each new character he introduces, immediately feels like he or she has already spent an entire rotten lifetime within its borders.
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This one is just like my life. Cats, sandwiches, murder, treachery . . . the bathtub . . . yeah. I can really identify.
The series continues. This time we have a very luscious femme fatale and the man she betrays. Ava is a predatory gold digger of the worst kind, and yet, a woman no man can resist. Dwight is the man she betrayed and left for a rich dude. When Ava reappears looking for Dwight, things go downhill from there leading to the final confrontation. As in the first volume of the series, the dark art style complements the story very well. In fact, it is a pleasure to read the tale just for the art. The sto...more
At first I didn't think this one would be that interesting. I was wrong. It made me say "OH SHIT" out loud, very good unexpected plot twist, although it was an almost cliche plot line, Millers style kept it original, alive and fresh. I love the female characters in this series, very sexy intelligent devious ladies, no whimpering damsels here!
Again, the art world brought the dark,gritty world of Sin City to life. Never fails. I can understand that some lady readers may be s...more
Again, the art world brought the dark,gritty world of Sin City to life. Never fails. I can understand that some lady readers may be s...more
Frank Miller's Sin City series is very violent. But what makes them special to me is that they are also very romantic. And well, "Sin City, Volume 2: A Dame to Kill For" pretty much brings both in a special little package.
In this book, we see Dwight, a reoccurring character in the Sin City series, trying to turn his life around. And then an old flame, Ava, comes into the picture. Ava was nothing but trouble then, but she finds a way to reel Dwight in again. How will it turn...more
In this book, we see Dwight, a reoccurring character in the Sin City series, trying to turn his life around. And then an old flame, Ava, comes into the picture. Ava was nothing but trouble then, but she finds a way to reel Dwight in again. How will it turn...more
The second volume was even better than the first, maybe because of the fun storyline that kept me thinking, maybe for the fact that this volume had information not covered in the film. Either way, it featured Dwight and his issues with en ex named Ava who suddenly shows up and tells him that she's being abused by her husband and needs help. It becomes a question of truth and deception, right and wrong. Dwight gets some help from Marv and classic Sin City violence ensues as Miller shows how the v...more
Totallynotyourenglishteacher
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Frank Miller's follow-up to the series' debut collection continues the trademark art style and noir-istic motifs that carried the first Sin City to its success, and establishes the story of Dwight McMarthy, whose dark past can't seem to wait to catch up with him, . While Dwight's roller-coaster tale of betrayal and revenge doesn't make quite as much of an impact as Marv's, Sin City dwellers and visitors alike will still enjoy following Dwight's trail of broken bones and bullets all the way to i...more
It occurs to me that I may be padding a little bit by listing a comic book in here, even if it is a really damn good comic book. So after this, no more comics.
Unless they're super damn good.
I chose this volume of Sin City because it was one of the stories that wasn't featured in the movie. It precedes one of them - "The Big Fat Kill," and explains that line about Dwight having a new face, and also explains why Michael Clarke Duncan has a golden eyeball. Of cours...more
Unless they're super damn good.
I chose this volume of Sin City because it was one of the stories that wasn't featured in the movie. It precedes one of them - "The Big Fat Kill," and explains that line about Dwight having a new face, and also explains why Michael Clarke Duncan has a golden eyeball. Of cours...more
Wow, ceritanya mundur selangkah?!
Kali ini tentang manipulator perempuan bernama Ava dan korban yang hampir tidak pernah kapok Dwight. Cerita yang menarik dan akhir yang hampir memilukan (di sini jelas g melebih2kan, apalagi kalo liat akhir buku 1 hahaha...)
Diceritakannya bagaimana Marv ketemu dengan Goldie walau hanya sambil lalu dalam buku ini, menambah nilai cerita dimata g. Belum lagi Nancy as safest girl in whole a world! (yihaaaa...ga sabar nunggu cerita tentang dia !)
Kali ini tentang manipulator perempuan bernama Ava dan korban yang hampir tidak pernah kapok Dwight. Cerita yang menarik dan akhir yang hampir memilukan (di sini jelas g melebih2kan, apalagi kalo liat akhir buku 1 hahaha...)
Diceritakannya bagaimana Marv ketemu dengan Goldie walau hanya sambil lalu dalam buku ini, menambah nilai cerita dimata g. Belum lagi Nancy as safest girl in whole a world! (yihaaaa...ga sabar nunggu cerita tentang dia !)
I have discovered in myself a fondess for noir thanks to the hard case crime books and this fits right in there with those. Miller's Sin City as seen through his own eyes is a very dark place.
This is Dwight's story. A hard man who is cleaning up his act is visited one night by an old lover - Ava. Ava convinces him that her husband is torturing her and she turns to Dwight for help.
Dwight tries to save her, and what happens is the rest of the story.
This is Dwight's story. A hard man who is cleaning up his act is visited one night by an old lover - Ava. Ava convinces him that her husband is torturing her and she turns to Dwight for help.
Dwight tries to save her, and what happens is the rest of the story.
Style is everything and substance is nothing in Frank Miller’s Sin City stories. Miller obviously loves hard-boiled fiction and film noir and wants to update their styles for urban and possibly futuristic America. His stories have all the grit and grime, but not the spirit. Stories begin well, but are unrelentingly the same. They become boring. Miller is a very talented guy trapped in his own bad taste.
Great story. I thought this was going to be a story from the first movie, especially once they introduced Dwight, but it seems they adapted pretty loosely. I can definitely see half from this and half from another book, I mean for the section with Dwight in the flick; could definitely see the workings of Sin City as a whole in the interactions of just this book and the first book. This was a great read.
About a woman who is a hot as sin and the man who can only live out of sight or out ...more
About a woman who is a hot as sin and the man who can only live out of sight or out ...more
A Dame to Kill For, the second book in Frank Miller's Sin City series, was definately not as good as the first outing. It was decent, and had a pretty frightening femme fatale antagonist, but it just overall wasn't as cool as The Hard Goodbye, and really not worth the seventeen bucks I shelled out for it. But the artwork is beautiful, and the noir atmosphere was great as always.
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3/5
More like 2.5 stars, really. Maybe less? I read this sometime last year, I think, so I can't entirely remember what my initial reaction was. I'm interested in what Frank Miller is doing in the Sin City series, but there really did seem to be a vein of misogyny running through this particular volume. Ultimately, I really don't think I'm part of Frank Miller's target audience.
The last of the Sin City books to be read (damn library thieves) but possibly the best of the lot. Frank Miller's creation is never more vivid nor the characters so moving as in this volume. The best thing I can say is that while the ending is not truly surprising I was so engrossed in the story that it took me by surprise - and left me sorry that it was over.
Another great volume and this one takes place before and eventually overlaps volume 1. Really, I would have liked to read this one first because it gives you just a small taste of what Marv is all about. Either way the first two volumes of Sin City have been fantastic.
I can never get over Miller's bleak style, his simple black and white artwork and scant dialogue makes every one of the Sin City graphic novels dirty and grim. I love them.
And apparently I need to see the film? Mickey Rourke playing Marv's certainly got me interested ;)
And apparently I need to see the film? Mickey Rourke playing Marv's certainly got me interested ;)
I like the style of art. The content was fine. I was a bit uncomfortable with amount of seemingly unnecessary nudity, especially since I had little ones running about as I attempted to read.
As a side note I must mention this is my first sampling of Frank Miller's work.
As a side note I must mention this is my first sampling of Frank Miller's work.
Not as good as the first part, but almost. This second part is about Dwight (with a little Marv thrown in). If you've only seen the movie this is a very good addition as it explains Dwight's past which was left out in the movie and only hinted at.
A manipulative , self-serving woman name Ava steps over any man and uses any man for money and power. She wraps them around her finger , then get's rid of them when they have served there purpose.
It's amazing in graphic novel format I can't wait to see the movie version for book 2.
It's amazing in graphic novel format I can't wait to see the movie version for book 2.
This volume is a great mixture of Dwight's story (for those that have seen the movie, this is what happens before what you see there--what turned him into the man you see) and a return of Marv from the first volume, since it takes place before and during those events.
It was great to finally know what happened in Dwight's past to turn him into the man he is during the movie, since you get very little backstory and you only know that he had some rough times and was wanted by the police...more
It was great to finally know what happened in Dwight's past to turn him into the man he is during the movie, since you get very little backstory and you only know that he had some rough times and was wanted by the police...more
Dwight is visited by a scared ex-lover and gets in over his head in this second installation of Frank Miller's hard boiled comic book noir.
Large amounts of sex and violence, so not for the faint of heart.
Large amounts of sex and violence, so not for the faint of heart.
Benjamin Cheek
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Recommends it for:
Film Noir fans, Frank Miller fans
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Jarime
This is a hell of a novel. The longer the story goes on, the more drawn into the very human insanity that is prevalent through it's pages. Frank Miller is a genius, both in artwork and in storytelling.
Dwight's spotlight segment of Sin City. A well-rounded character with fierce loyalty and respect for women and damn good and killing things. Solid story line.
Book 2 brings another dose of hard-boiled awesomeness and a further fix of black & white glory. Oh and I'll also include the obligatory warning of extreme content.
This is the second Sin City story and it is not as good as the first, but it is still pretty great! Dwight is another character that you are going to want to meet!
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Frank Miller is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation. His most notable works include Sin City, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman Year One and 300.
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