August 7, 2003 Meeting

Sin City (Volume 1)
by Frank Miller

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Last month, Comic Club soared among the heroes and legends of Astro City.� This month we come back to earth, with a very different fictional destination.

Sin City is a vicious town, hot and unforgiving during the summer.� It offers no comfort or succor to its residents, only a faint hope for survival � and in some cases, survival is worse than the alternative.

Into this world of commonplace brutality, Frank Miller introduces Marv � as calloused and jaded as the City itself, until a chance meeting with a damned woman gives him purpose.� It may be a stupid, wrong-headed purpose (as Marv admits), but it's the only thing he ever had to live for in Sin City.� And a lot of other people will die because of it.

Told in stark black-and-white, Sin City is a punch in the gut to modern comics readers.� There are no inspirational moments or happy endings here � only a relentless brutality that somehow manages to affirm the value of life.

Read this ground-breaking graphic novel and tell us what you think.� It will be the subject of discussion at the next monthly meeting of H&D Comic Club � on Thursday, August 7.� Regular price is $19.95, but Comic Club members will save 20%, just as they do with every graphic novel purchase.

Previous Comics of the Month:

• July 2003 - Astro City: Life in the Big City

• June 2003 - The Golden Age

• May 2003 - League of Extraordinary Gentlemen