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> And I hate to poop on anyone's parade, Mark, but am I
the only one who
> thinks Miller's Sin City is over-rated?
Nope. I do too ;->
> Overdrawn, over-worked images
> interrupted occasionally by a double page spread of
black ink is not art,
> or even particularly good story-telling; it's
overkill, bordering on
> pretension.
Yup.
> And I guess I resent the fact they're marketed as
something
> more important than they are, and priced as such. I
far prefer the clean,
> direct story-telling of something like Stray
Bullets.
Me too.
Miller's _Sin City_ is ok -ish. But overblown, overrated
and
over-priced.
I prefer artwork with, uh, _more lines in_ than the Sin City
stuff.
If anyone here has not read the Paradox Graphic Mystery
titles, they
should.
If you 'don't like comics' these titles may well change your
mind.
AFAIK, there are four currently in print:
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers
Rayner
The Bogie Man by John Wagner & Alan Grant and Robin
Smith
Green Candles by Tom de Haven and Robin Smith
A History of Violence by John Wagner and Vince Locke
Originally, they were issued as three-parters, but are now
available as
single volumes. Amazon.com has 'em (I got a couple from them
recently
at a quite reasonable price, even with postage it was cheaper
than
getting them from a UK bookshop--btw a propos an earlier
post, VAT is
not charged on books in the UK, nor on childrens' clothes:
bibliophilic
persons of restricted growth have a great time here).
The story-telling is tight, and the art-work is great. These
are great
crime comics.
ED
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