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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.
Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.
On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.
Frank Miller
I'm not scared.
Stop it Nancy.
No....
This, the first of the Sin City books to include colour, albeit only yellow, it moves at a much steadier pace than previous books, and it seems Miller has found a stronger and more definable structure to the way he uses the black/white and white/black. The narration through Miller's honest to god good guy, Hartigan is subtly different to that by Dwight or Marv and the art reflects a more compassionate side.
Whilst the Yellow Bastard, is perhaps a physically weaker villain than say Kevin from The Hard Goodbye it is certainly a more powerful story about love. Whilst Marv in the first book was in love with a fiction, there is something real and moving about Hartigan's love for Nancy, the little girl he saves from being raped and murdered in the first chapter. Despite the cruelty of the rest of the story, this relationship grounds the story giving the conclusion a poignancy that was only hinted at in either Marv or Dwight's tales to date.
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