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It just doesn't get better than this Frank Miller is the beatles! Being a teenager in the eighties was fairly devoid of revoultionary inspiration, especially in the artistic realms. Then i read the dark knight returns, i can only imagine it was a similar experience for those teenagers in the sixties hearing revolver for the first time. A quantum leap in expectation and experience happened, suddenly a whole new world of possibilites became tangable. Miller's genius is palpable. Someone said "talent is making what others find hard to do easy and genius is making what talent finds hard to do easy." Millers writing is effortless in it's dance with the forms, i.e. they are inseperable. But it is the art work! To put it as best i can it brings tears to my eyes every time and makes my heart open. His love of what he's doing is plainly obvious, he loves these characters and they're beauty is shining through. He is accomplishing what all artists strive for: To capture the soul. Sin City is a rough place, the collective content of the darker aspects of our humanity boiled up in a steaming stew. And for people who don't want to see they find only violence and the expressions of their own fears. But the human spirit shines brightest in the worst depths, the creative spirit is unstopable, just look at rap music. The politics of the situation doesn't detract from the heroism, Marv is a gritty, Johnny Cash hero. As Bill Hicks says all it takes is the right bar and the wrong woman, and who knows where we'll land. This book touches spots.