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In a Sin City short story, "The Babe Wore Red," Frank Miller deviated from his stark black-and-white artwork by adding tiny bits of color throughout the story. The girl's dress was red, her lips were red--you get the picture. In That Yellow Bastard, the fourth Sin City graphic novel, Miller's experiment with yellow ink is a
In a Sin City short story, "The Babe Wore Red," Frank Miller deviated from his stark black-and-white artwork by adding tiny bits of color throughout the story. The girl's dress was red, her lips were red--you get the picture. In That Yellow Bastard, the fourth Sin City graphic novel, Miller's experiment with yellow ink is also a tremendous success. The setup is simple. On the last day before he retires, Hartigan, an old cop, gets a call about an 11-year-old girl who has been kidnapped by a lunatic. Hartigan has got just one more thing to do before he retires: save the girl. Saving her is the easy part, because Hartigan has uncovered something really bad that is not going to stop until it catches up with him. That Yellow Bastard is nerve-racking to the very end.
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Just one hour to go. Hartigan's polishing his badge and working himself up to kissing it goodbye, it and the thirty-odd years of protecting and serving, tears, blood, and triumph that it represents. He's thinking about his wife's smile, about the thick, fat steaks she's picked up at the butcher's, about the bottle of champagne she's got packed in ice, about sleeping in 'til ten in the morning and spending sunny afternoons flat on his back. But with one hour left to go, he gets word about that one loose end he hasn't tied up: a young girl who's helpless in the hands of a drooling lunatic. Just one hour to go ... and Hartigan's gonna go out with a bang.
"Ehdoton suosikkini kaikista Sin City -kirjoista. Bruce Willis John Hartiganina teki koko elokuvan parhaan roolisuorituksen ja hänen persoonansa onnistui tarttumaan myös kirjaversioon katselukokemuksen jälkeen. Piristävää oli myös nähdä ensimmäistä kertaa värejä mustavalkoisen tarinan keskellä, Yellow Bastard näet näytti todella silmiinpistävältä kirjan synkässä maailmassa. Juoni on paras kaikista ja tunnelmaltaan tämä on myös viihdyttävin niistä."
"Edelleen samaa meininkiä, mutta silti erittäin viihdyttävää. Neloskirja jatkaa siitä, mihin ykkönen jäi (ykkösosa on edelleen lukematta). Tässä on ehkäpä paras juoni, mutta vastapainoksi Millerille tyypillistä mustan ruudun kaltaista hidastelua on hiukan enemmän. Siitäkin huolimatta Sin City on ehkäpä parhaita sarjakuvasarjoja ikinä, ja Keltainen äpärä sarjan paras osa tähän asti."
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