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Frank Miller’s career after that, for all his superior and evolving skill as both an artist and a storyteller, would remain in the shadow of that fantasy he failed to kill in 1984. The Hard Goodbye” is the first “Sin City” volume in Frank Miller’s seminal 1991-1992 graphic novel series. Miller’s no stranger to tough justice, but even so, seeing a morally-upstanding cop kill so brutally is pretty controversial in CBR’s eyes. Seeing Daredevil descend into a destructive spiral of violence and madness (helped along, of course, by Kingpin’s villainous scheming) is so shocking it’s sometimes difficult to read… okay, that’s a lie, CBR gobbled it up like candy, but seeing DD homeless, attacking random citizens and repeatedly getting beaten half to death is savage, even if it does make for a kick-ass resurrection story! Miller has told me in personal conversa­tion that he realizes he allowed Moebius’s style to take over too completely in the first issue, and hopes to fix this in future issues.

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My reaction to the storyline is ultimately this: It’s a clever, if derivative conceit, and it kept me turning the pages.Ronin Sin City Sin City: The Hard Goodbye Frank Miller Presents: Why the Acclaimed Comic Book Creator Is Reviving Sin City and Ronin Publisher Dan DiDio says Frank Miller Presents wants to “elevate the medium” with new stories. There are a few controversial elements thrown in to try and keep things interesting -- babes with loose morals and an aversion to clothing, bad guys who are secretly Nazis, y’know the usual -- but mostly it’s just Samuel L.

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A series of double-page spreads, appearing throughout the story, show the slowly growing Aquarius complex literally taking over the city - burrowing downwards and sidewise, turning everything into a part of itself. Considering Miller’s track record with Kane, Krigstein, and his other misappropriated influences, I incline toward the latter. Miller uses as much space as he needs to tell the story, whether it’s a dramatic full spread showing off a simple image of a vast cityscape, a fast-paced samurai combat scene with manga’s characteristic speed lines, or a single panel crammed with essential dialogue.Miller wrote the scripts for the science fiction films RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, about a police cyborg. Ultimately, however, Miller was persuaded by publisher Jenette Kahn that DC Comics would give him as much freedom as he desired for the series, [5] and DC published Ronin beginning in 1983.

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Any aspiring artist knows that if you have a mediocre draw­ing, it will look less blatantly mediocre the more lines you put on it. Here he is, changing the American comics industry, forcing the company to serve the artist’s will, with his sheer talents. Set outside regular Marvel continuity, it featured a wild tale of cyborgs and ninjas, while expanding further on Elektra's background. Miller will act as the company's president and editor-in-chief, working alongside Dan DiDio as publisher and chief operating officer Silenn Thomas.

Miller illustrated the covers for the first twelve issues of First Comics' English-language reprints of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub. Similarly, some fans found it difficult to adjust to Miller’s darker vision of Gotham, in which not even the morally-upstanding citizens are able to escape the psychosis and corruption they are surrounded with: even Jim Gordon leaves his colleague beaten and demoralized in the snow and cheats on his pregnant wife. Fans were keen to see Batsy brought out of hiding and team up with other heroes such as Atom, Flash and Plastic Man in his battle against Lex Luthor and Brainiac.