Sin City: The Big Fat Kill

Frank Miller

If you're one of the uncounted millions who've seen Robert Rodriguez' big, sprawling epic film based on the Sin City comic books, you're likely to think you don't need to read The Big Fat Kill (or the other four parts of the series upon which the film was based). You might be surprised. Much was made of the frame-by-frame faithfulness between the graphic novels and the film, but there's one very big difference-- the scene Tarantino directed, which is part of this book (Dwight's drive to the tar pits, conversing with John's corpse). Of course, the differences between Tarantino's scene and the rest of the film only serve to highlight the faithfulness of the rest of the film, but there you go.

Sin City is great noir. Hopefully, by now, everyone's aware of this. Miller combines the natural impressionist approach of the comic book with the strong narrative structure of the dime novel, and the result is pure magic. If you've never treated yourself to the graphic novels, and you enjoyed the movie, what are you waiting for?