She moves her pawns (her playboy husband, her bodyguard, Dwight, a cop, a mob boss, and so on) across the board, using them anyway she can to further her own greed for power. I guess the following ones will use a similar technique, building on the already established characters and adding depth to the already complex setting.Īs the title suggests, the dame Ava Lord is the black queen of the chess game played by Frank Miller. Marv will play a sidekick role for photographer Dwight, making the two albums overlap in time. In an interesting twist of the series timeline, Marv from the first album returns to his usual seat in Kadie's Bar, watching the strip dancing of his protegee Nancy and breaking the arms of some hecklers. It's always night time in Sin City, an urban jungle controlled by outcasts, criminals, ladies of pleasure and drug dealers. What truly impresses me is how good the story itself is, and how well the artwork serves the dark atmosphere and the twisted characters. The level of explicit violence, strong language and exposed breasts is no longer a surprise for a Sin City album. I can understand now why Eva Green was chosen for the role, she has a similar problem in a lot of her movies). He knows she is poison, yet he cannot say no to her when she wiggles her charms at him (this lady has major issues with her wardrobe all over the album. Ava, a dame that left him for a wealthy playboy four years ago, wants him back. This time, scandal photographer and freelance investigator Dwight puts his own neck in the noose over an old flame of his. In the first Sin City album, bruiser Marv got into a war with society over the killing of his one night stand. You tricked me into doing something there's no coming back from.

Only this time you crossed a final, fatal line.

Just when I was pulling it back together you come along and rip my heart out one more time.

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