Hard Boiled

Come for the Frank Miller story...and be either disappointed, or not surprised that the once-great Miller sucks here.

Stay for the Geof Darrow art, that elevates a crap story to something actually worth suffering through, just to see one more panel by the great Darrow.

All the stars for Darrow. All but three stars removed for the typical Miller crap.

This book is insane... and I loved it! Geof Darrow, the artist, is amazing! His full pages are so intricate and full of life! The are kind of like "Where's Waldo", but full of violence, nudity, and lots and lots of trash! Nixon is absolutely insane and his fight with the grandma-looking unit is epic! If you like carnage, mayhem, and super cool artwork, this is your jam!

Frank Miller wrote some iconic stories in the 80s but time has not generally been kind to much of his later work. This stand-alone graphic novel doesn't have much in the way of plot to recommend it and is chock-a-block with violence all loving rendered in the most fabulously detailed artwork. In fact some of the large two-page spreads are jaw-dropping in their attention to detail. Other than the artwork there isn't a whole lot going for this though Miller does achieve some small sense of pathos by the end of the story. So, not great, but its not his worst by a long shot either.

I received this from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

Just a couple of words to describe this one: weird and weird. Normally, I like Frank Miller, but this is just way beyond his "normal". The one thing that I did like was the incredible amount of detail in the artwork.

Didn't get much out of this but it was entertaining