Sin City

Episode 128: Sin City (2005)

Theme: Non-Marvel / Non-DC Comic Book Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis (feat. none this week — Melissa escaped Basin City)

This week, Oz and Curtis crank the contrast, grab their trench coats, and dive into Frank Miller’s Sin City — a three-for-one anthology of bullets, bad men, good women, and Bruce Willis monologuing harder than any heart with angina should legally allow.

The guys break down:

• The Basin City Vibe — where every street is wet, every cop is crooked, and every monologue sounds like it smokes unfiltered cigarettes.
• Marv, Dwight & Hardigan — three grizzled antiheroes who solve their problems with: bricks, duct tape, bullets, fists, hallucinatory narration, and emotional repression.
• The Look — pure graphic-novel noir: stark blacks, blown-out whites, splashes of red, splashes of yellow, and Elijah Wood wearing glasses that say “I eat people.”
• Oldtown — the only place in America where sex workers have diplomatic immunity and a ninja-prostitute keeps the peace with silent stares and perfect head-slicing form.
• Frank Miller Vibes — gritty crime, vengeance, corruption, and more voiceover than the audiobook section of your local library.

Final Verdict:

Oz — A Box of Markers
Curtis — 77 Limbless Elijah Woods

Next week: The Non-Marvel / Non-DC Comic Book tour continues with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) — the rubber-suit masterpiece that made pizza a personality trait, resurrected the word “cowabunga,” and let Corey Feldman voice a turtle with angst.