A review by octavia_cade
Sin City, Vol. 6: Booze, Broads, and Bullets by Frank Miller

3.0

A collection of unrelated comics - well, they all take place in Sin City and the characters have been around before, but all the storylines are separate. Some work better than others. There's just not a lot of space in a single issue comic to develop plot or character, and the ones that work best here do so because they realise that and actively pared right back. "Silent Night", for instance, is so stripped back that there's hardly any dialogue and it's the best of the bunch. Others, like "Rats", which was also excellent, rely on small bits of repeated dialogue and the sense of the reader to figure it all out. At the other end of the scale were comics like the ones containing the "Blue Eyes" character (Delia) which tried to stuff so much in that it ended up relying on a bunch of tired old tropes and just not being that great, really. Averages out at three stars, I reckon.