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picking up all the sin city books... does the order matter?

  • 23-10-2008 10:38pm
    #1
    evad_lhorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,896 ✭✭✭


    just got three of the books from play.com and the other three will probably get here tomorrow and dame to kill for is out of stock so I put it on order.

    as dame to kill for is number 2, will it make any difference if I read on after book 1? I got Family values and hell and back as well as the hard goodbye. I read the hard goodbye in no time earlier. should I wait for them all to come or read away?


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  • #2
    magwea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭magwea


    Not really, i think your safe, read in whatever order you like.

    There are repeating characters, but each book is a standalone.


  • #3
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    A Dame To Kill For and The Big Fat Kill feature shared character sets, so may make more sense in the right order. Other than that, you're pretty much fine as the rest of them are standalone books as magwea says.

    Damnit, now I'm wishing I had my set of them here so I could dip back in. Are you going for the original full-size ones or the new smaller size ones that Dark Horse put out when the movie was released, btw?


  • #4
    evad_lhorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,896 ✭✭✭evad_lhorg


    whats the difference?


  • #5
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    evad_lhorg wrote: »
    whats the difference?

    The originals are larger; the reissued ones digest sized, and the art has been scaled down accordingly. They may also be hardcover, but I'm not sure.

    That said, the spines of the digest volumes line up to make a nice reconstruction of a panel from A Dame To Kill For showing Nancy dancing. Which is arguably nice, assuming you're happy to have a picture of a half-naked voluptuous stripper on your bookshelf.


  • #6
    magwea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭magwea


    The digest paperbacks are great value, 12 bucks for 6 issues is a steal. Perfect if for quick reading, still, very much bare bones stuff.

    The hardcover, two box sets for the entire series, are superlative collections, though the price reflects this. Roughly double the size of the digest, printed on the most ridiculously expensive paper i've ever seen for a comic, include the colour covers on card paper like in the original monthly. Some aren't into the Miller's Sin City style, perhaps correctly judging it too derivative, maybe even lazy, though if you like it you'll love it, worth every penny.

    It all depends on your budget, but you really get your monies worth in both formats.


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  • #7
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Yeah, I must admit the only digest I had a bit of pause about buying was Hell And Back, and even then the higher price is still worth it for the enormous slab of story and that glorious chapter in full colour and an excuse for Miller to just draw any pop-culture figure he wanted :)

    Wouldn't mind having a look at the hardcover collections but the last time I saw them in a shop they were hideously expensive and much as I've enjoyed the over-the-top pulp antics of the series I'm not sure I enjoy them that much...


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