Look at the back cover on an angle for special treat. Superb reuse of images on those pages, blending multiple images to full effect. The Sin City red goes in with the blue for title pages, indices and credits. The process interview of Miller by Lind is a stand out feature that fits so well with this style of book, building upon the visuals and answering so many questions regarding the material. Gallery extras interspersed among the text at the back, with captions for art information. Indices and credits page, at the back instead of the front. Closing the book out with a one page biography. This is the first original art work by Kitchen Sink Books, and it’s interesting to note what formats have been followed from others in this field and what is new. John Lind is the editor and designer on this volume, and as such gets all the credit. That and a few other questions you’ll have as you read through are answered in the interview with Miller at the end. The book’s page size seems to be chosen for allow margins and page numbers, but a few gallery pieces are full size edge to edge. Page sizes vary as the book progresses, beginning with larger pages and going smaller not too far along. Their cleanliness compared to Miller’s originals are the tip off. They’re slightly pixelated but overall blend in very well. The missing pages are scans of the comic pages enlarged and made off white or ivory. No margin notes, but plenty of corrections, page stains and glue. Blacks vary page to page depending on the ink used, but we see gradients throughout. Visually aggressive.Īll but nine pages are scanned from the original art. Take a look at the pages above, with the shadow only showing the bricks on the walls, and just marvel.

Faces and builds are very similar to The Dark Knight Returns, but this was meant for black and white only, and in this Miller excels and improves with each issue. The Hard Goodbye was evolutionary in Miller’s style, as he went further into heavy figures and exaggerated forms and expressions. In its entirety, the first Sin City storyline from Dark Horse Presents.

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