still laugh at the yellow guy, great ( )

Volume 4 of the graphic novel series made into a popular film a few years ago.

This issue takes a focus on Hartigan and Nancy, their past and their present, facing the sudden reappearance of the man they thought died years ago.

Each volume becomes my favorite and so far this one has now claimed the title. Miller creates such distinct and inventive characters that it’s hard not to enjoy even the bad ones.

Words fail me. ( )

A mostly honest cop close to retirement saves a young girl, foiling the plots of some crooked colleagues and other powerful men. He takes the torture, deprivation and long prison sentence to protect her, revelling in the letters she writes him.

They stop, he is let out. Finding the girl, he realises he has been played, and knows there is only one way to stop the little yellow bastard and company.

http://graphicsf.blogspot.com/2007/02... ( )

One of the best of Frank Miller's Sin City series, as John Hartigan, an old cop with a heart condition on his last day before early retirement, saves little Nancy Callahan from rape, torture and murder at the hands of Junior Roark, the depraved and untouchable son of Senator Roark. Hartigan is framed for raping Nancy Callahan, spends 8 years in prison before confessing to the crime and obtaining parole in a mistaken belief that Roark has located young Nancy (now 19). He finds he has led the bad guys to her, and suffers unimaginable torment to finally save her. The ending is one of Miller's more powerful; the only logical flaw in the book is the question of how the powerful Roark family was unable to find on their own a 19-year old girl who never left town, never changed her name, and never made a particular effort to stay hidden. Other than that, a great piece of art and storytelling. ( )