Big damn sin city omnibus5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s only one option: Tear the hell out of there and take out as many cops as possible along the way. Suddenly, as he’s trying to get his head together, he hears the sirens of the crooked cops of Sin City. It seems obvious that the big guy killed her but, no, it wasn’t him. ![]() The big palooka can’t believe his good luck to be with such a gorgeous dame. The collection begins with “The Hard Goodbye.” We have all the beautiful silhouettes of sex. All in time for the much anticipated Sin City sequel, “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,” set for August 22, 2014. “Take one volume of Sin City and repeat until you have completed the omnibus.” Big Damn Sin City collects Frank Miller and Lynn Varley‘s seven stories: The Hard Goodbye, A Dame to Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, The Yello Bastard, Family Values, Booze, Broads, & Bullets, and Hell and Back. “Frank Miller’s Big Damn Sin City” is just what the doctor ordered, if he has a decidedly dark side. ![]()
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