Sin City: Hell and Back - Frank Miller

Once again demonstrating his mastery of comic book story-telling, Miller once again changes the format for his final visit to Sin City. Most of the Sin City titles have featured three or four single, but interconnected stories. Sin City 6 contained eleven short stories each providing a small vignette of life in the titular town. Hell and Back, meanwhile, presents just a single tale which, at over 300 pages is by far the longest of the yarns. On some levels, there is nothing hugely original about the basic which introduces us to Wallace, an artist and former Special Forces soldier who makes it his goal to rescue Esther, a woman he has only just met, after he ...  Read the complete review

They say the best place to start is the beginning, yet I always seem to start with this book when I reread the Sin City collection. Hell and back is the final book in the Sin City series of seven books and is by far my favourite of them all. It is the longest Sin City book too, standing at roughly 300 pages of story, and it is the only one to use full colour, albeit only for 20 pages or so. It tells the story of a man called Wallace who falls in love with a girl called Esther, having saved her from commiting suicide. After really hitting it off with each other, she is kidnapped and Wallace is left to hunt down those who took her and then save her ...  Read the complete review