Frank Miller, king of grit

Ronin, Sin City, and Dark Knight Returns all leave me with a dirty feeling.  Because every one of his stories are filled with the filth of the streets.  And the art isn't meant to be pretty.  Most of the time it's not.  But Frank does one thing I rarely see others do.

He creates a cinematic story through graphic novels.  The pace from frame to frame is like a movie, only it can't be a movie because it probably wouldn't capture so much detail.  Even Ronin, which I felt was his worst book, still felt like I was reading a movie. 

I just saw a poster for a Sin City movie.  I know I'm going to be dissapointed.

yeah frank miller is amazing. i recently read a comic by him called "hard boiled" which was really cool, if incredibly violent and depressing. its a series of stories about this guy who is really a robot, and keeps getting his brain washed and getting all these different fake personalities, and then assassinating people. anyway, yeah, i cant possibly imagine a movie capturing one of his comics. i mean, they could not possibly be even a tenth as violent, and it would be very difficult to capture the correct atmosphere.

actually, i thought that bladerunner did a pretty decent job of capturing that kind of super gritty atmosphere.