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A review by octavia_cade
Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill by Frank Miller
3.0
An improvement on the last volume. Dwight's still a non-entity to me, the thinnest smear of character over humanoid form, but the rest of it's pretty enjoyable. The artwork remains excellent. There's some fantastic imagery in here. Setting so much of the climactic violence around tar pits and giant sculptured dinosaurs may be batshit crazy, in its way, but it's still so compelling to look at - weird and creepy and awesome.
I also like all the political undercurrents, the state of dodgy détente between the cops and the mob and the hookers of Old Town. That sort of shifting power relationship is much more interesting to me than all the fight scenes (even if they do result from it), especially as some of the elements of those fight scenes are starting to feel a little over-used. ("Deadly little Miho" I'm looking at you.) And the whole Irish mercenary subplot seems equally overdone, the product of a story that's trying to throw too much at a wall to see what sticks.
I also like all the political undercurrents, the state of dodgy détente between the cops and the mob and the hookers of Old Town. That sort of shifting power relationship is much more interesting to me than all the fight scenes (even if they do result from it), especially as some of the elements of those fight scenes are starting to feel a little over-used. ("Deadly little Miho" I'm looking at you.) And the whole Irish mercenary subplot seems equally overdone, the product of a story that's trying to throw too much at a wall to see what sticks.