William Reardon’s Blog

I’ve alway been a big fan of Frank Miller. Author of two of my favorite graphic novels, The Dark Knight Returns and Ronin, he tended to eschew the black & white images of good & bad. Along with his distintive drawing style, his work tended to be hard & gritty. Just look at the center image above — that’s a freaking 50+ year-old Batman clocking Superman! Superman!

Even though lots of people recommend it, I’d never really checked out the Sin City series. Just one of those things I never got around to. (Besides, I was already spending waaayyyy too much money on comic books at that point.) Now having seen the movie, wow, was I missing out. Good stuff.

The other day I picked up a bunch of the books from the local comic book shop and need to order the rest off Amazon.

It also still has one of my favorite quotes in all of comicbookdom:

“Sometimes sticking up for your friends means killing a whole lot of people.”

Too true.