Sin City: Booze, Broads, and Bullets - Frank Miller

Booze, Broad and Bullets (BBB from now on) is Frank Miller's sixth venture into Sin City and marks a slight departure from previous. Earlier books told three or four standalone, but interlined tales. Despite being one of the slimmest volumes in the series, BBB is far more ambitious and contains no fewer than 11 stories. This did give me some cause for concern when I first picked up this title. One of the important jobs of comics is to build up an atmosphere, which sucks the reader into the author's imaginary world. Whilst the mixture of text and imagery enables comic book authors to establish atmosphere more quickly than straight prose, I wondered whether ...  Read the complete review

Most people will have come across the Sin City film over the last few years, but not everyone has gotten around to reading the 7 books from which the stories are taken from. The film featured stories from 3 of the 7 books, with at least 2 other films announced it is possible some of the other books will be appearing in them. However this is one book that won't be appearing in any of them, at least not in full. Booze, Broads & Bullets is a collection of short stories from the Sin City world which are around 20 pages in length each. Some of your favourite characters, like Marv, pop up inside this book along with the introduction of some new ...  Read the complete review