Sin City: Hell and Back #1

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"I've been a fanatic for a long time for old crime movies and old crime novels. But it started with the movies. And the old Cagney movies. Bogart and all that. I loved just how the morals of the stories are. They're all about right and wrong. But in Sin City in particular I wanted them all to happen to in a world where virtuous behavior was rare, which greatly resembled the world I lived in. It's kinda like the old Rolling Stones song, where every cop's a criminal, and all the sinners are saints, where the lowlifes would often be heroic, and the most stridently beautiful and sweet women would be prostitutes. I wanted it to be a world out of balance, where virtue is defined by individuals in difficult situations, not by an overwhelming sense of goodness that was somehow governed by this godlike Comics Code."

- Frank Miller




11 pages of 33

Comments

[rainspirit]

When I was younger and really into this series, this was unquestionably my favorite story arc. Guy reminds me of a proto-John Wick nowadays. It was nice to have a protagonist who wasn't violent by nature as the star of the show.