Frank Miller's Sin City is definitely an example of style
over substance, but what style. He does the best
white-on-black background renderings since Alex Toth, maybe
since the master, Will Eisner. (Damn, I've got to pull out
some of my Spirit comics; it's been far too long since I've
looked at them.)
Although some very good comics have been mentioned in this
thread, no one has brought up Dave Lapham's Stray Bullets.
This is an amazing series (although each issue is
self-contained) about a bunch of people living on the edge of
the criminal underworld. Although they are not averse to
criminal undertakings, most of them just aren't very good at
it. Lapham's Murder Me Dead series ain't bad, either, very
reminiscent of Goodis (with perhaps a little bit of Cain or
Thompson).
Mark
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