Sin City
For starters, the Recut/Uncut version is now out! And oh how I want it! Also, if you didn't know, a second "Sin City" movie is supposed to come out sometime in the next year or so based off of "A Dame to Kill For", which is the second graphic novel in the series. Here is a link for all of you: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/
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Sin City
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Sin City is the title for a series of stories by Frank Miller, told in comic book form in a film noir-like style. The first story originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents from April of 1991 to June of 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts. Several other stories of variable lengths have followed. All stories take place in Basin City, with frequent recurring characters and intertwining stories.
A movie adaptation of Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller with "special guest director" Quentin Tarantino, was released on April 1, 2005. The Sin City graphic novels were reprinted with new covers and in a reduced size to coincide with the motion picture's theatrical release. Rodriguez has expressed a desire to begin filming two sequels back-to-back starting February 2006 for release sometime in 2007. A TV Series based on the comics is reported to follow the second sequel.
Sin City yarns
These are the individual stories, usually referred to as "yarns", set in Frank Miller’s Sin City universe. They are listed here in order of publication. The chronology of Sin City is described below.
The Hard Goodbye
First published as Sin City in Dark Horse Presents issues #51-62 and 5th Anniversary Special (June 1991–June 1992), and reprinted as Sin City (The Hard Goodbye) (January 1993), The Hard Goodbye is the first comic book story that Frank Miller drew and wrote about the desperate denizens of Basin City/"Sin City". It was originally titled simply Sin City when it was released in the Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special and issues Dark Horse Presents #51-62 , but it was given its own title in trade paperback form. The protagonist is Marv, a dangerous, possibly psychotic man. Marv wakes up after a one-night stand to discover Goldie, the woman he had just met and had sex with, has been killed in the night. The thirteen-part serial follows Marv on his brutal, single-minded quest to understand why Goldie was killed and bring revenge upon her murderers.
This story is one of three Sin City stories retold in the movie Sin City. In the film version, Mickey Rourke plays Marv, Jaime King plays Goldie/Wendy, Carla Gugino plays Lucille, Elijah Wood plays Kevin, and Rutger Hauer plays Cardinal Roark.
Marv, a huge, heavily scarred hulk of a man, is approached in a seedy saloon by a beautiful woman named Goldie. Later they meet in an equally run-down hotel room for a night together. The two of them have sex, and when Marv wakes up she is lying in the bed next to him, murdered. Heavily armored police officers (on duty officers wear SWAT gear possibly due to the high crime rate) from Basin City's corrupt police force storm the building, and Marv fights his way through them and escapes into the streets.
As he roams the streets in pursuit of the truth, Marv has to deal with several issues. First, he feels indebted to Goldie for her kindness and wishes to repay her by avenging her death. He suffers from a medical condition in which he experiences vivid hallucinations, and wonders if he actually murdered Goldie (especially because the two of them were alone and he feels sure he would have detected anyone entering the room to kill Goldie). Finally, Marv is attacked several times by storm troopers and detectives from the Basin City police department, whom he brutally slaughters in self-defense.
At one point in his journey, Marv stops by the strip club Kadie's, where he watches the dancing act of Nancy Callahan (from That Yellow Bastard).
Marv's investigation eventually leads him to The Farm (the same place Detective Hartigan and Yellow Bastard had their final confrontation in That Yellow Bastard), where he defeats a pet wolf and discovers human remains. Marv finally encounters the real killer, a small, shadowy figure with glowing glasses and a Charlie Brown-looking sweater. The killer is supernaturally silent and quick, and manages to sneak up on and beat up Marv (quite a feat, as Marv is over 7', 300lbs, and had earlier shown the ability to slaughter several armed opponents at once, and survived being shot in the chest by a submachine gun).
Marv wakes up in a holding cell, where he is greeted by the sight of several stuffed female heads, mounted on the wall like trophies. Also held in the cell is Lucille (his lesbian parole officer), who explains that the killer kills women so that he can dine on their flesh. Lucille is understandably quite shaken, as the killer had previously forced her to watch while he sucked the flesh off her hand. From the cell, Marv watches the killer being picked up by a limousine, and learns that his name is Kevin.
Marv and Lucille escape, but are intercepted by a SWAT team. Unwilling to die in a shootout, Lucille knocks Marv down and runs towards the cops. Believing she has been rescued, Lucille attempts to convince them not to kill Marv. The cops quickly kill her, to eliminate any witnesses. Marv kills the cops, and learns from torturing the lead detective that the man who wants him dead is Cardinal Roark, brother to Senator Roark and a member of the powerful and corrupt Roark family that founded and runs Basin City.
Marv is soon captured by the Old Town prostitutes, led by Goldie's twin sister Wendy, who believe Marv is responsible for Goldie's death and thus intend to torture and kill him. Marv convinces them that he is innocent (stating that no prostitute would let someone as ugly and fearsome-looking as him close enough to kill her), and they provide him with the ordnance he needs to confront Kevin.
Armed with explosives, razor wire and his "mitts", Marv sets up a series of traps around the Farm, then flushes Kevin out by bombarding the Farm with a Molotov cocktail bomb. Kevin manages to avoid Marv's traps, and the two of them fight it out. Marv takes quite a beating, but keeps on fighting and eventually manages to outsmart Kevin by handcuffing him to himself, allowing him to knock out Kevin with a strong punch to the face. Wendy shows up with a gun, intending to kill Kevin; but Marv knocks her out, because he intends to torture Kevin first, and doesn't want Wendy to have nightmares from witnessing it.
Marv proceeds to dismember Kevin with a hacksaw, then feeds his still-living torso to Kevin's pet wolf. Even as his entrails are being devoured by his own pet, Kevin simply smiles calmly and doesn't utter a sound.
Marv decapitates Kevin's body and then proceeds to take an unconscious Wendy back to Kadie's where Nancy patches him up, gives him beer and agrees to put Wendy on a plane at Sacred Oaks.
Robbed of any satisfaction from Kevin's death, Marv goes on to storm Cardinal Roark's heavily guarded fortress. Marv kills Roark's men and confronts the naked Cardinal in his bed. Marv then presents Kevin's still smiling head to Roark, and demands an explanation. Roark, anguished over Kevin's death, confesses that he shielded the killer, because he had a "voice like an angel". Roark babbles on about how Kevin not only ate his victims' bodies, but also their souls, making him pure and clean. Roark confesses to envying Kevin's "gift", ultimately joining Kevin in his meals of murdered women in order to experience it for himself. Goldie found out about Kevin, so Kevin killed her, and Roark sent in the police to kill Marv, frame him, and cover up Kevin's crimes. Roark rationalizes that the killings were justified because the victims were merely hookers and nobodies.
Marv proceeds to tear Cardinal Roark apart, but just as he's really getting it going, SWAT storms the room and fills Marv with machine gun fire.
Marv survives, is hospitalized, and ultimately is charged not only with the murders of the cops he'd killed, but also of the serial killings committed by Kevin as well. A hotshot Assistant District Attorney threatens to have Marv's mother killed if Marv doesn't confess to the crimes, so Marv breaks the ADA's arm in three places, then confesses.
Marv is sentenced to death, much to the glee of Basin City's inhabitants. On his last day, he is visited by Wendy, who says that he can pretend that she's Goldie, in one final moment of love.
Finally, Marv is electrocuted in the electric chair, but survives. With his last words, he defiantly mocks his executioners, asking if "That's the best you can do, you pansies?" They electrocute him again, which finally kills him.
A Dame To Kill For
First published November 1993–May 1994, A Dame To Kill For is the second compilation of the Sin City series. It chronicles Dwight's and Marv's attempts to rescue Ava Lord, Dwight's former fiancée, from her sadistic husband. But Dwight begins to suspect that things aren't what they seem with Ava...
The story begins as Dwight McCarthy, working as a photographer for a grossly overweight man named Agamemnon, saves one of the prostitutes of Old Town. That night, he receives a call from a woman named Ava, asking him to meet her at Kadie’s. She had once broken his heart, but he agrees to meet her there. Marv is at Kadie’s, and greets Dwight. Ava arrives late and tries to persuade Dwight to take her back, claiming that her life is "a living Hell." Dwight refuses as Manute arrives and takes Ava away. Dwight goes home, but cannot sleep. He decides to investigate the whereabouts of Ava, and her new husband, Damien Lord.
He hops a fence and, using his photography equipment, scopes the place out. He is discovered and claims that he is a Peeping Tom. Manute does not recognise him, but beats him anyway. Dwight calls Agamemnon for a ride home, and they stop to get pizza. As he arrives home, he finds his car returned and his door unlocked. In his bedroom is Ava. They eventually reconcile and make love. Manute arrives and violently beats the nude Dwight. Dwight is knocked out of his upper story apartment window, where he blacks out momentarily. He awakens to find Manute driving off with Ava.
Dwight returns to Kadie’s, where Marv is in the middle of a squabble with some out-of-town punks. One of them pulls a gun on Marv, who knocks him flat. Dwight convinces Marv to help him storm Damien's estate. They get drunk and watch Nancy dance. As they approach the mansion, Dwight is insistent that Marv leave the punk's gun, which Marv has procured, in the car. They battle the guards, and Marv takes on Manute. Marv rips one of Manute's eyes out. With Manute occupied, Dwight makes his way to Damien. When he finds him, he beats him to death. Ava appears, and explains how Dwight was all a part of her plan to get Damien murdered so she could inherit his estate. She shoots Dwight six times, including once in the head. Dwight once again makes it out a window and is picked up by Marv, who takes Dwight to Old Town. The girls of Old Town perform surgery on Dwight's multiple bullet wounds, then ask him to leave. He convinces Gail and Miho to let him stay, and they operate further on him.
Dwight gains his greatest and deadliest friend and ally in Miho when he tells of how he saved her life three years ago - she had killed three of the Tong, however the last two had her at point-blank range when Dwight saved her life.
Mort and Bob, two cops from That Yellow Bastard, talk to Ava. She claims that Dwight was a stalker psychopath who killed Damien out of jealousy. They believe her story, and Mort starts sleeping with her. They then speak with Dwight's landlord, who tells about letting Ava in, and the resulting loud noises of the fight. They then speak with Agamemnon, who tells how Dwight is an upright good kid. Bob doubts Ava considerably now, while Mort, still sleeping with Ava, becomes more on-edge towards his partner. This culminates with Mort killing Bob, then committing suicide. Ava tries to join mob boss Wallenquist.
Dwight (sporting a new face), accompanied by Gail and Miho, poses as one of Wallenquist's men. Once inside, Manute sees past the new face and captures Dwight. Gail and Miho strike, and Dwight shoots Manute with a hidden .25 he had up his sleeve. Six bullets fail to stop him, and Manute aims at Dwight as Ava pulls her own gun and shoots Manute in his shoulder. Manute falls through a window, where Miho stabs him in the arms. Ava then tries telling Dwight that Manute had her under mind control and that he is a witch doctor of some sort. Dwight finally sees through all the lies, and kills Ava.
(Note: Manute survives his extensive injuries, returning to appear in later stories such as The Big Fat Kill and Hell and Back.)
The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories
First published November 1994, The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories is a publication of short stories. It reprints a serial run in Previews:
- And Behind Door Number Three? (4 pages long)
- The Customer is Always Right (3 pages long)
- The Babe Wore Red (24 pages long)
And Behind Door Number Three? is a short story about Gail and Wendy (with Marv's necklace) setting a trap for someone they suspect is 'carving up' girls in Old Town.
The enigmatic "Cowboy" is captured by the allure of Wendy and subsequently shot and tied up by Gail. Although the Cowboy is willing to confess to the cops, the girls have other plans and invite Miho to finish the job.
The Customer is Always Right short served as the opening sequence for the movie Sin City, which featured Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton. The sequence served as the original proof of concept footage that director Robert Rodriguez filmed to convince Frank Miller to allow him to adapt Sin City to the silver screen.
The story involves an enigmatic tryst between two nameless characters; "The Customer" and "The Salesman." They meet on the terrace of a high rise building, hinting that although they seem to be acting like strangers, they do indeed have some sort of past. It is unclear what their past involves even as they embrace in a passionate kiss.
A silenced gunshot stabs the night air to reveal that The Salesman has shot The Customer. The reader is led to believe that The Customer had fallen into a serious and difficult situation and, with no other feasible alternative, hired The Salesman to kill her.
The Babe Wore Red centres around the character of Dwight (from The Big Fat Kill and A Dame to Kill For) and the murder of his friend Fargo. Dwight stumbles upon the hanging corpse of Fargo in his apartment and encounters Mr Shlubb, half of the recurring supporting duo, Douglas Klump and Burt Shlubb (aka Fat Man and Little Boy).
He knocks out Shlubb and finds the titular character hiding in the shower. Under a barrage of sniper shots from Douglas Klump, Dwight and the Babe reach their car and speed off. Although they successfully elude the pair, Dwight refuses to let them off easy, choosing rather to head to The Farm to deal with them. In the mean time, the Babe introduces herself as a hooker named Mary. He duels with both of them again and due to insistence from Mary decides to shoot them in the leg instead of killing them. He eventually receives a package from Fargo who had shipped it off before his untimely demise. Dwight reads up on the whole situation and realizes that Fargo was simply the scapegoat for illegal drug-related activities and had paid the ultimate price. He also receives a package from Mary. She was not a hooker, rather a nun that had flirted with temptation before ultimately deciding to dedicate her life to God.
Silent Night
Silent Night is a one-shot short story that Frank Miller released in November 1994. It is a 15-page story about Marv's rescue of a little girl, in which there is almost no dialogue; only one speech bubble appears in the entire story.
Against a backdrop of heavy snow, Marv, a hulking, trenchcoat-clad figure, approaches a door in a dark alley. He intimidates the bouncer, Fatman, with his sheer size and is led inside and down a flight of stairs. He is met by two armed men and a leather-clad woman, who is apparently their boss. Marv hands her a wad of bills and is shown to a steel door in the far wall. Through a small viewing slit, he can see a terrified little girl crouching in darkness in the room beyond. Marv draws two pistols and kills the pair of henchmen, then executes the woman. It only then becomes apparent that the child was being sold for sex. He retrieves the little girl, saying, "Your momma's been callin' after you, Kimberly. Let's get you home." With the girl in his arms, he walks off into the distance, as the snow obscures his receding form.
The Big Fat Kill
First published November 1994–March 1995, 'The Big Fat Kill opens in Shellie's apartment, where a drunken former fling is furiously rapping on her door, demanding to be let in. Shellie is obviously scared, but is comforted by Dwight who has gotten a new face. Dwight tells the barmaid to let the man, and his ensuing entourage, in. Reluctantly Shellie opens the lock while Dwight hides in the back.
The drunken man, named Jack, begins to boast of his conquest over Shellie, culminating in slapping her across the face. He then goes to the bathroom where Dwight is hiding in the shower stall. Getting the jump on Jack, Dwight holds a knife to his neck and tells him to stop bothering Shellie.
When Jack scoffs at the threat Dwight dunks his head into the toilet (where Jack had been urinating the minute before) until his body goes limp.
Jack awakens a few seconds later and storms out, demanding that his group not mention these events. Shellie investigates the apartment and finds Dwight on the railing outside the building. After ensuring her safety, Dwight becomes worried that Jack will cause more trouble and must be stopped somehow. He jumps off the building, ignoring Shellie's muffled yells that sound like "Stop!".
As Dwight speeds toward Jack's car, he sees his target speed by him. A police car follows them both, but stops and turns around once the cars enter Old Town, the area of Sin City full of and run by the prostitutes of the area.
As Jack spots a young girl named Becky walking alone in a dark alley, he follows beside her, asking coyly for her services and constantly being rejected. Dwight follows close behind and is then caught off guard by Gail, one of Old Town's most experienced hookers and guardians. She advises Dwight to stay put and let things with Jack work themselves out. As Dwight spots Miho on the roof, he agrees and watches as the alley is closed off.
Meanwhile, Jack continues to pester Becky, escalating to outright anger at the egging on of his friends. He finally pulls out a handgun and aims it at her. Instead of being scared or surprised, Becky is instead filled with pity, proclaiming that he has just done the dumbest thing in his life. Immediately afterward Miho throws a swastika-shaped bladed weapon that takes off Jack's hand, then proceeds to descend on the car, quickly killing every man but Jack.
During the attack, Dwight has an impending sense that something is wrong but can't place his finger on it. Miho and Jack get in a standoff. As Dwight tries to make Jack quit his foolish game, Miho sabotages his gun by throwing a plug into the barrel. When Jack tries to shoot the intervening Dwight his gun backfires, sending the barrel into his forehead. Miho finishes him off by slicing his neck.
As the girls loot all the corpses, Dwight searches Jack's person and finds a police badge revealing his last name as Rafferty. Then he realizes that Shellie was screaming "COP!". This new fact is bad for all of Old Town, as the shaky truce between the police and the girls is all but shattered. Gail starts calling for warriors while Dwight tries to recommend disposing of the bodies before anyone suspects anything. Finally, after revealing a past relationship between Gail and Dwight, the girls agree to hide the bodies in the tar pits.
After acquiring a car, slicing up all the bodies to stuff in the back trunk and leaving Jack in the front seat due to lack of space, Dwight begins to hallucinate, and Jack begins to speak. Although Dwight knows he is hallucinating, unlike Marv, he cannot quiet the gabbering corpse. With his mind not completely focused, his driving suffers, attracting police attention. As he contemplates whether or not to kill the cop, he brakes hard. Jack's body slumps forward, hiding the neck wound and the gun casing lodged in his head. The cop looks through Dwight's window and notices the corpse, believing it to be an unconscious, drunken friend. Dwight tells the cop he's the designated driver. The cop then notifies Dwight that he's driving with a broken taillight, and lets him off with a warning.
At the tar pits Dwight is attacked by Irish mercenaries. He quickly disposes of most of them, but loses Jack's head in the process and is left for dead drifting in the pits. Miho rescues him and Dwight begins to suspect that something might not be right.
Back at Old Town, Gail has been ambushed and kidnapped by gangsters. It seems that Becky had sold out Old Town for money and her mother's protection. Gail bites and rips a chunk off of Becky's neck in anger, vowing that she deserves worse.
Dwight and Miho realize they must now recover Jack's head. They then ram the mercenaries car off the road. After dodging some grenades, Dwight corners Brian, the holder of the head, before Miho finishes him off. With the head in tow they must now rescue Gail and Old Town.
As the gangsters prepare to torture and kill Gail and Becky, an arrow shoots through one of the henchmen with a note prompting a trade: The head for Gail.
As Dwight stands alone in an alley with the head, outnumbered and outgunned, the trade is made, Gail being freed and the head, now bandaged up, handed over. Soon the gangsters wonder why a bodiless head has bandages in the first place. Dwight triggers the grenades stolen from the mercenary, exploding the head.
The gangsters now realize they are in a trap as the girls of Old Town reveal themselves, heavily armed also, on the roof. Before any defensive measures can be taken, the men and Becky are gunned down.
The story is one of three from Sin City related in the film Sin City. In the film, Clive Owen plays Dwight, Brittany Murphy plays Shellie, Benicio del Toro plays Jack, Rosario Dawson plays Gail, Devon Aoki plays Miho, Alexis Bledel plays Becky, and Michael Clarke Duncan plays Manute, the leading gangster.
A notable difference from the comic version is that Becky survives the final gunfight by hiding in a nook in the alley, leaving her alive for the final "epilogue" scene of the movie. It was later revealed in the two disc special edition DVD that Becky died at the end of the film.
That Yellow Bastard
First published in February 1996–July 1996, That Yellow Bastard is a six-issue comic book miniseries, and the sixth in the Sin City series. It follows the usual black and white noir style artistry of previous Sin City novels. That Yellow Bastard is currently under publication by Dark Horse Comics, the first edition was available in July 1997 (ISBN 1569712255).
The story begins with a good-hearted cop, Hartigan (who incidentally has a bad heart condition) on his final mission before his retirement. It seems that Roark Jr., son of one of the most powerful and corrupt officials in Basin City, has developed a penchant for raping and murdering innocent little girls. It is Hartigan's mission to rescue Junior's latest quarry, skinny little Nancy Callahan.
Hartigan succeeds in rescuing Nancy by disabling Junior's getaway car, and then proceeds to use his revolver to surgically shoot off Junior's ears, hand, and genitals. Before he can finish Junior off, Hartigan's corrupt partner Bob, who fears angering Senator Roark, shoots him in the back. Junior Roark lapses into a coma from his injuries, and Senator Roark takes issue with the abuse of his son. Hartigan finds himself framed for raping Nancy, is branded a pedophile and sentenced to a lengthy prison term amidst a public outcry that brands him one of Sin City's most hated citizens (which is quite an achievement). Despite his innocence and the pariah status he has achieved as a result of his conviction, he remains silent about his pain, knowing that Senator Roark would revel in his suffering.
Alone in prison, and abandoned by his wife Eileen (who proceeds to marry another man and have children) and friends, he finds solace in the carefully disguised weekly letters he receives from Nancy. Hartigan quickly develops a paternal love for little Nancy, and sees her as the daughter he never had. For another eight years, he drags himself through his jail time, his only respite being the letters his young admirer sends him, until finally the letters stop coming. Although he initially believes Nancy has merely outgrown her childhood hero, Hartigan soon becomes increasingly worried that his enemies have finally found Nancy. His fears are confirmed when a deformed, hairless visitor with sickly yellow skin who smells distinctly like a garbage can, and whom Hartigan seemingly doesn't know, arrives at his prison cell and punches him out. Hartigan is then given a letter that contains the index finger of a nineteen-year-old girl.
Believing Nancy to be in imminent danger, Hartigan's passive view of his current incarceration changes. He decides to find some way out, and contacts his lawyer, a woman named Lucille (the lesbian parole officer from The Hard Goodbye). Much to his own lawyer's surprise and disgust, Hartigan claims he was guilty of the crimes he was accused of, asks for forgiveness, and is released on parole, apparently due to Senator Roark's satisfaction over his confession and submission.
Back on the streets, the 60-year-old ex-con/ex-cop eventually tracks Nancy, now nineteen, back to a strip-club in a dangerous part of town known as Kadie’s. Hartigan finds that she is no longer the little girl he rescued from a child-murderer 8 years ago, but is now a woman who works in the club as a stripper, and is unharmed. The letter containing the finger was merely a ploy to lure him out. Hartigan smells a set-up, and something far worse, the distinct odour of rotting garbage. "That Yellow Bastard", the man who arrived at the cell with the letter, has followed him, and he has revealed Nancy's position.
Hartigan and Nancy have a quick reunion when he pulls her out of the bar and into her car. With Nancy at the wheel, there is a high-speed pursuit with the "Bastard" close on their tail. Hartigan fires a precise shot that hits their pursuer in the neck, and he and Nancy hide out in a safe house. There, they share a kiss, where Nancy reveals she is in love with him; but Hartigan refuses to move any further because of the paternalistic nature of his relationship to Nancy.
Hartigan is confronted once again by "That Yellow Bastard", who reveals himself to be none other than Junior Roark. Apparently Senator Roark used his vast financial resources to resurrect his son using means outside the boundaries of conventional science, hiring doctors, witch doctors, and gene therapists to bring Junior out of his coma and reconstitute his severed body parts. As a result, Junior lives, but as an unnatural abomination. Roark knocks Hartigan unconscious with a single punch, lynches him with a noose and tells of how in the past 8 years he raped and killed over a hundred girls. He then kicks the desk under him and escapes with Nancy.
Hartigan awakes in his noose, wills himself back to life, and manages to break free from the rope. Junior's henchmen, who had shown up to dispose of Hartigan's body, are quickly subdued, and forced to tell Hartigan that Junior had fled to the Roark Farm (described as a place where bad things happen) with Nancy, presumably to violate her.
Racing to the farm, Hartigan suffers several severe angina attacks, but continues in order to save Nancy. At this time, Nancy is being flogged by Junior and, like Hartigan, won't give her torturer the pleasure of her pain by screaming. Hartigan shows up, takes down a squad of corrupted police officers and confronts Roark, who has Nancy at knife point. Hartigan (possibly) fakes having a heart attacks, where Roark attacks him. He pulls out a switchblade and stabs him in the chest, calling him a "sucker", then proceeds to castrate Roark for a second time and then brutally beat his head into the floor, killing him. Nancy and Hartigan share another kiss, this time without Hartigan's paternalistic feelings getting in the way. Hartigan then tells Nancy to flee, lying to her that he will call up some old police friends of his to clean up the scene of the crime.
With Nancy gone, Hartigan realizes that by killing Junior Roark he has made a deadly enemy of Senator Roark, who would stop at nothing until Hartigan was dead. Hartigan also realizes that Senator Roark would most likely target Nancy first, in order to make Hartigan suffer for killing the Senator's son. In order to spare Nancy this fate, in an act of pure love, Hartigan commits suicide to protect her, blowing his brains out with his own pistol.
In Rodriguez's adaptation, Bruce Willis stars as Hartigan, Jessica Alba as Nancy, Nick Stahl as the Yellow Bastard/Junior, Powers Boothe as Senator Roark and Michael Madsen as Hartigan's partner, Bob. Some notable differences exist in the film version. The theatrical release omits an appearance by Carla Gugino as Lucille which is reinstated in the extended version released to DVD.
Daddy's Little Girl
Daddy's Little Girl was first published in A Decade of Dark Horse #1 (July 1996) and reprinted in Tales to Offend #1 (July 1997), and Booze, Broads, and Bullets.
Johnny is a middle-aged man who seems to be in love with a much younger girl by the name of Amy. Amy insists that they can't be together and alludes to the solution that he kill her father. Torn by his emotions and manipulated by Amy, he attempts to confront her father first, asking for her hand in marriage. Daddy refuses and Johnny shoots him with a revolver.
Temporarily overcome with remorse, Johnny realizes that it was all fake and the bullets he shot were blanks. Daddy beats Johnny half to death and it becomes apparent that he is not really her father but rather her lover and that the entire ruse was a sadistic form of sexual role-playing. The story closes with Daddy closing his hands around Johnny's throat.
Lost, Lonely, & Lethal
First published December 1996, Lost, Lonely, & Lethal contains three stories:
- Fat Man and Little Boy (3 pages)
- Blue Eyes (14 pages)
- Rats (7 pages)
Fat Man and Little Boy is a short three-page story about Douglas Klump and Burt Shlubb, who also appear in "That Yellow Bastard" and "Family Values." These characters use a large vocabulary to make it appear that they are more intelligent than they truthfully are. However their wordy speeches are sprinkled with malapropisms. In this yarn, Shlubb's boots are in horrible shape, and he wishes to steal the shoes off a corpse, wrapped in a rug, that they're supposed to dump in the river.
Klump tells him that they're supposed to leave the body as it is. Shlubb disagrees and pulls the boots off, to discover that there are no feet in them, and a ticking sound rings through their ears. This was apparently a test, and the two buffoons get thrown several yards away as the explosion hits.
Blue Eyes, the second story, is the first appearance of Delia. It begins as a man named Jim notices a hitman following him. He runs into Kadie’s, where he is confronted by an ex-flame named Delia. Marv is sitting next to them at the bar, and provides some comic relief. The hitman enters the bar and Jim convinces Delia to leave with him.
Marv steals his drink. They go back to his place and make love. She then attacks him, and explains that this is her test. She wants to become a hitwoman, and she must first kill the only man she ever loved. After killing Jim, the Colonel appears. He gives her an assignment and she takes on the name Blue Eyes, which is what Jim used to call her.
Rats is the final story, it is about a disturbed war criminal who eats dog food. It was adapted to a 2004 fan film of the same name. [1]
The sadistic war criminal stuffs rats in his oven to eat, and is killed by a mercenary in the exact same way.
Sex & Violence
Sex & Violence was first published in March 1997 and only contains two stories, both of which feature Delia:
- Wrong Turn (23 pages)
- Wrong Track (3 pages)
The two stories take place on the same night, with the second taking place minutes after the first.
Wrong Turn is the first story, in which a man named Phil has just killed his wife. He drives aimlessly in the rain, eventually noticing upon Delia unconscious on a dirt road. He picks her up, and she tells him that she must have got struck by lightning. He offers to take her to the hospital, but she refuses. She asks if he is married, and he says that he is not. She takes him to the pits, and they make love. In the middle of it, he confesses that he is, in fact, married.
She starts choking him and calls him by the name of Eddie. She claims he has a trunk-load of stolen jewels he plans to sell in Sacred Oaks, violating an exclusivity agreement with the Wallenquist Organization. He explains that he is a used car salesman named Phil, and she understands. Eddie was supposed to be driving a similar Studebaker, and looked very similar. She sticks the heel of her shoe in his eye socket, killing him. She meets up with the Colonel and Gordo at the entrance to the pits. They check the trunk of Phil's car and find his wife with six bullets in her belly. They throw him in as well and Gordo pushes the car into the pits. Delia explains that she has a train to catch.
Wrong Track is the second story, which picks up soon after. Eddie is riding the train. His internal monologue explains that he had a flat tire. Delia hits on him, and they make love near the back of the train.
When they're done, she snaps his neck and throws him off the train. Leaving the rear of the train, the Colonel waits for her. "Delia-- do you plan to make love to each and every one of them?" he asks. Her response is "Only the ones I really like."
Just Another Saturday Night
Just Another Saturday Night was first published in Sin City #1/2 (August 1997), a limited mail-in comic available only through a special offer in Wizard (magazine) #
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~Val
Say, how do ya like the background coming along?
~Val
Have you read the graphic novels by Frank Miller yet? If you want to see the scenes that they didn't show in the film, that's the place to go for more. I grew up with them in a way and I even once met Frank at a convention back when in his Dark Knight days. His writing and artwork have been a major influence on me as an artist.
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have fun,
Val