Description
Experience the biggest, baddest yarn the signature noir series has to offer. Wallace was living a pretty simple life, a good guy, an artist, trying to make his way but not willing to sacrifice his principles to do it. Then, he meets Esther. He saves her from trying to take her own life, and falls in love. But before she can explain her reasons, she's taken, kidnapped by a shadowy cabal up to serious no good. Luckily there's more to Wallace than goodness. He isn't the kind to lose his head, he's really good at killing people. And he'll kill anyone that needs killing if it gets him closer to finding Esther again. He's going to hell . . . and back. This edition does include the cover and pinup galleries from previous editions, featuring art from Eduardo Barreto, Brian Bolland, Geof Darrow, Gary Gianni, Paul Grist, R. C. Harvey, Russ Heath, Gil Kane, Jason Pearson, and Matt Wagner.… (more)
Subjects
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1999 - 2000 (original issues)
Physical description
240 p.; 6 inches
Publication
Dark Horse Books (2010), Edition: 3rd edition, 240 pages
Pages
240
ISBN
1593072996 / 9781593072995
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LibraryThing member wendellg
I think this book is a satisfying end to the series. I liked the introduction of new characters and the fact that the story stands on its own, independent of the other books in the series.
Any the colourful hallucinatory sequence involving numerous other figures - Captain America, Rambo, the Cat in
Any the colourful hallucinatory sequence involving numerous other figures - Captain America, Rambo, the Cat in
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the Hat etc. etc. - was an especially nice touch. Show Less
LibraryThing member coffeesucker
Not as good as the previous volumes, but still pretty damn satisfying.
LibraryThing member lithicbee
Wallace makes for a very cool, almost Batman-like hero (well, he seems to lack Batman's compunction against killing, but hey, bygones) and some of the art sequences in this book are great, like when Wallace is hallucinating. The ending is just okay, a little too pat, but overall this is a good
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LibraryThing member Radaghast
The only installment that rises above mindless action.
LibraryThing member sweetiegherkin
Considering this is the last book in the Sin City series, I was a bit disappointed with its anticlimactic-ness and the absence of some of the “regular” characters we’ve gotten to know (i.e., Dwight, Nancy, Gail, Miho, etc.). Instead, we get Delia, a seductive assassin we met briefly in the
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second to last book, and Wallace, an ex-Navy Seal turned artist who’s on a mission to find a kidnapped woman he met the night before. Wallace’s story sounds, and is, a lot like Marv’s story in the first book of the series. Again, I question the motivation of a man fighting against all odds for a woman he barely knows, but at least here we have the additional knowledge that the character is an honored war hero, giving the impression that he’s just the kind of guy to risk his life for others. This book is much longer than most of the others in the series, but at the end I still felt that the mystery aspect wasn’t fully explained to my satisfaction. This may be in part because of my expectation for something more for the final book. One rather funny part of the book is when a drugged Wallace begins hallucinating and seeing the people around him as famous characters like Hell Boy, The Cat in the Hat, and so forth. For these parts, Miller employs full color instead of his usual black-and-white illustrations (with a splash of blue for Delia). Overall, the book isn’t bad and I have to admit I was glued to my seat to get to the end, but it’s not my favorite in the series. Show Less
LibraryThing member burnit99
Frank Miller's longest and most ambitious Sin City graphic novel, but one with a theme he's used before: former marine seal rescues beautiful woman from bad guys and falls for her before they steal her back. The rest of the book is about his efforts to find and save her. This is actually a very
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nicely done, dark and violent story that brings together some of the characters from previous Sin City stories. Show Less
LibraryThing member stacy_chambers
Overall, this is misogyny. But it's well-written misogyny.
LibraryThing member Stahl-Ricco
Another gruesome tale from Sin City! This time the hero is Wallace and the damsel in distress is Esther. It's a good action story with a pretty gnarly 'reveal' toward the end. I enjoyed it, and am crossing my fingers that another tale will come some day!