> there is absolutely nothing more hard boiled than
Frank Miller's black
and
> white graphic novel series SIN CITY. particularly the
1st originally
> serialized collection which features a serial killer
who makes his
victims
> watch as he eats their severed limbs, and then
collects their heads on a
> wall; and a protagonist who murders a crooked
archbishop, feeds the
serial
> killer to his own dogs and dies in the electric chair
at the end.
I'm glad someone mentioned Sin City. All the books are
excellent. I'm not
a fan of Frank Miller's other work (didn't like The Dark
Knight Returns and
think it probably had a bad influence on comics in general),
but Sin City
is very compelling.
> Mike Hammer did indeed begin life as a comic book
character called Mike
> Danger. new Mike Danger episodes are now being
published and are written
by
> prolific mystery writer Max Allan Collins. the series
has also been
optioned
> by Miramax Films.
As far as I know, the Mike Danger comics series is no longer
being
published. It had a pretty interesting premise--a PI from the
1950s wakes
up a hundred years in the future--which I suspect was far
from what
Spillane's original idea was.
James Reasoner
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