the comic book series with a film-noir style created by frank miller. the series began in dark horse's fifth anniversary special (april 1991) and continued in dark horse presents #51-62 from may 1991 to june 1992. the comic was serialized into thirteen parts and all took place within basin city with all the characters intertwining in some way.
THE SETTING:
the city is called basin city (aka nicknamed sin city). a fictional town in the american-west. very corrupt city to live in. the police and swat team have access to any sort of heavy weaponry whenever requested because of the turmoil sin city is in with all of the high-end crimes. the policemen are usually classified as lazy/corrupt, and only a handful of them are honest. when the gold rush hit, the roark (the biggest name in the city) brought over a large amount of attractive girls to keep the miners entertained and brought much success to the family. the family migrated to other sort of business areas, leaving the girls to take absolute rule and order of old town, the prostitution central. the main settings the stories take place in:
-the projects: a run-down and poor side of sin city. there are several high-rise apartments and the crime rate is through the roof. the individuals that inhabit there formed a sort of society where they dont have to enounter other people from outside.
-the docks: a collection of wharf and warehouses that are local to the projects
-kadie's club pecos: a strip club/bar where nancy and shellie work, and marv and dwight hang out. even though brawls do happen within the joint, kadie's is one of the safest places to be in sin city.
-roark family farm: several of the stories take place at this location and it is where kevin, the serial killer, resides.
-old town: a red-light district and where the police have no jurisdiction within the area. the city's majority population of prostitutes reside here and twins named goldie and wendy took control over it. the women will do any sexual behaviors for a reasonable price but show now mercy to anyone who breaks the rules. they will fight back with force.
-sacred oaks: home to the rich and powerful of basin city.
-basin city central train station: is directly connected to phoenix
-the santa yolanda tar pits: an abandoned amusement park where tar pits are located and where dinosaur bones were excavated from. there are dinosaur statues all around and was used as an attraction sight until an old lady fell into one of the tar pits and died of a heart attack (thus, park was closed). its frequently used as a place where people take dead bodies to dump in the tar pits to never be found and where high schoolers sneak into a lot. miller admitted that the only reason why the tar pits exist is so that he has a reason to draw dinosaurs.
CHARACTER ORGANIZATIONS:
-the basin city police department: so corrupted that they are considered to be their own sort of gang paid thugs. they only assist to those who are willing to pay and turn a blind eye towards those that are too poor.
-the roark family: a dynasty of corrupt landowners and politicians that reign over basin city. famous roarks of this generation include a senator, a cardinal, an attorney general and roark junior (aka. yellow bastard)
-the girls of old town: old town is occupied with a majority of the city's prostitute women. they govern their own territory
-the wallenquist organization: a powerful crime syndicate led by herr wallenquist, a mysterious crime lord with a broad range of criminal enterprises to his name. the wallenquist seem to be the most peaceful and forgiving of the various crime leaders.
-the maligozzi crime family: the purest example of a "true" mafia lifestyle.
COMIC BOOK COMPILATIONS:
-the hard goodbye
-a dame to kill for
-the big fat kill
-that yellow bastard
-family values
-booze, broads and bullets
-hell and back (a sin city love story)
MAIN CHARACTERS:
-marv
-dwight mccarthy
-nancy callahan
-gail
-mho
-john hartigan
-wallace
-roark junior (aka yellow bastard)
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