So, yeah, this thread is inspired by this recent Sin City fascination I've been having, after watching Sin City 2 (it's a good film, dammit!) and having finally read all the volumes of it via the omnibus Big Damn Sin City (worth the fucking purchase). Anyway, enough of that. I want to ask you, what's your favourite Sin City yarn? Btw, a "yarn" is any of the individual stories Frank Miller wrote in the Sin City universe.
Personally, mine is A Dame to Kill For. I just feel like its plot was the most grounded yarn of the lot, featuring a female character that actually wasn't a prostitute, as well as a relatively interesting femme fatale that serves as a brilliant foil to Dwight's self-loathing, reserved personality before his facial reconstruction surgery. Dwight McCarthy is my favourite character for most representing the "average man" caught up in a series of events, not to mention how it's somewhat unique in that his character development is marked, not by suddenly becoming a more "good" person, but embracing his "monster" and killing the woman who'd destroyed his self-esteem in the first place.
The somewhat skewed, yet interesting moral of A Dame to Kill For seems to be that, in Basin City, being "good" doesn't do shit for you and you have to be ready to fight fire with fire to know your place in life. Or something like that (to be fair, Sin City isn't that much more than big dumb noir action flicks with manly men and voluptuous vixens; it's more of a genre play that doesn't take itself seriously, really). Also, bonus points for Marv's extended cameo, if you will, where he helps Dwight into the Lord mansion and beats up Manute so bad he has to get a new eye.
Personally, mine is A Dame to Kill For. I just feel like its plot was the most grounded yarn of the lot, featuring a female character that actually wasn't a prostitute, as well as a relatively interesting femme fatale that serves as a brilliant foil to Dwight's self-loathing, reserved personality before his facial reconstruction surgery. Dwight McCarthy is my favourite character for most representing the "average man" caught up in a series of events, not to mention how it's somewhat unique in that his character development is marked, not by suddenly becoming a more "good" person, but embracing his "monster" and killing the woman who'd destroyed his self-esteem in the first place.
The somewhat skewed, yet interesting moral of A Dame to Kill For seems to be that, in Basin City, being "good" doesn't do shit for you and you have to be ready to fight fire with fire to know your place in life. Or something like that (to be fair, Sin City isn't that much more than big dumb noir action flicks with manly men and voluptuous vixens; it's more of a genre play that doesn't take itself seriously, really). Also, bonus points for Marv's extended cameo, if you will, where he helps Dwight into the Lord mansion and beats up Manute so bad he has to get a new eye.
