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Sin City: The Big Fat Kill Bk. 3 (Sin City (Dark Horse)): The Big Fat Kill Bk. 3 (Sin City (Dark Horse))

By: Frank Miller
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse
ISBN: 1593072953
ISBN-13: 9781593072957
Released: 16 Feb 2005
RRP: £10.99
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Brilliant series, Frank Miller is great! - By: grr, 23 Apr 2008
Once again Frank Miller knocks it out of the park in this, the 3rd Sin City installlment.
This is a welcome return for some characters, namely Dwight from Dame to Kill for, & the girls from Old Town, & the evil Manute (big, creepy guy that he is!) Dwight is out to put a stop to Jacky-Boy's drunken violence, but he gets whole lot more than he bargained for, when the voluptous Gail steps in. Theres some rough justice, Old Town style, & a fantastic showcase for deadly little Miho & some suprisingly funny use of shruiken! Then things get a whole lot worse, with the discovery of the "Atom Bomb," turns out Jacky-boy was kinda important! Another great crime noir from Miller, with alll the amazing characteristics you expect from Sin City. The black & white art is sharp as ever & perfectly captures the mood. The shadows are just brilliant, so effective! Throw in some talking heads, rogue IRA mercs, hot babes, betrayal & the evil mafia. Passionate & thrilling! Theres a cracking galllery section at the back & some colour plates at the front. A must for any sane graphic novel fan!
Great, but maybe not one of Miller's strongest works. - By: Johnny Amiga, 28 Feb 2003
There are many who think The Big Fat Kill is not one of Miller's best works about Sin City, & they might just be right. Even so, The Big Fat Kill has alot going for it. The artwork is just amazing, & certainly ranks amongst the best Sin City-related art Frank Miller has ever drawn (along with "That Yellow Bastard" & "To Hell&Back: A Sin City Love Story"). The lines are thicker & the B/W contrasts are stronger than in "Family Values" or "Sin City", which fits the overalll tone of the book perfectly. The story is also quite interesting, & offers some truly great moments, like Dwight's frantic drive to the tar pits outside Basin City, or the scenes that show the unique talents of Miho the assasin.

However, alll is not perfect with the story. Compared to books like "A Dame To Kill For" or "That Yellow Bastard", this one is very predictable, & apart from few moments where Dwight's personality is shown in a rather interesting light, it lacks the human moments that'd raise this to the same league with Frank Miller's best work. And maybe Dwight is a bit too straightforward as a character to make the story reallly gripping. While most other Sin City characters have been so tragic that the reader can never know what's coming to them, Dwight McCarthy is more like a everyman hero (who just happens to be an amazing gunslinger & a born leader). You always know he's going to win in the end (however, Dwight's character became alot more interesting with "Family Values", so there's a good chance the character still has some tricks up his sleeve).

So while I'd definately recommend this one, I'd suggest reading "A Dame To Kill For", "That Yellow Bastard" & "Sin City" first.

Not the best so far, but certainly enough for a good time - By: , 02 Jul 2001
The first thing you should realize before you order "The Big Fat Kill" is that it's reallly a big pro if you read the original Sin City story, & a MUST to read "A Dame to Kill For" prior to this one. See, the main character in this book is Dwight, a man who tries to stay as anonymous as possible because elseways his criminal past may catch up with him. This past that he's hiding from is the story from "A Dame to Kill For", so you should reallly get that first. It makes it a lot easier to understand a lot of why Dwight's acting the way he is. There's also some conversation about Marv, the main character from the original story. But Marv is not a major factor in this book so reading the original story is reallly only a pro, not a must.

About the story: Oneday a girl named Shelley is being harassed in her own home by a guy named Jack, her drunk ex-boyfriend, & his friends. Dwight, who is living with Shelley 'convinces' them to leave & decides to follow them to make sure he doesn't do any more damage. Only Jack turns out to be so dumb to drive into Old Town, a place where the hookers are the law because of the pact they made with the police ('they stay off the police's back, the police stays off their backs'). Jack & his friends wind up dead, upon which they find out Jack is reallly a cop while examing the body. This will clearly lead to war between the cops & Old Town, leaving it a free warzone for the mob, IF the cops ever find out about Jack. Dwight thinks to have the solution to get rid of the bodies & goes on his way. But things turn out to be not that easy. What follows is an interesting story with several different parties of power & interests, violence, a lot of backstabbing, loyalty & finallly an interesting plot-twist.

In alll honesty I think the original "Sin City", "A Dame to Kill For" & especiallly "That Yellow Bastard" are better books than this one, so if you haven't read alll of those yet I think you'd rather read those first. With that I'm NOT saying this is a bad book because it isn't. In my opinion it's actuallly a very good tale which keeps interesting to the very end because of the different directions the story takes alll the time. It's also carried by Frank Millers trademark (by now) art. This is reallly suitable for the story, it being a dark grimmy 'mad-cop' story, & of no less quality than you're used to if you've been a Sin City reader longer. I just don't think it's THE best Sin City story out there. Get the other ones I named first, than get this one & have yourself a good time with it.