It is time to look at the third installment from the Sin City Graphic series. Dwight McCarthy, Basin City’s most popular ladies man and ‘patsy’ returns in this yarn, and through a series of missteps, will trigger a Sin-City style turf war between two of its most dangerous factions.
The Big Fat Kill
Many familiar Sin City characters besides Dwight, return in ‘The Big Fat Kill’ including the mammoth, the strong arm bodyguard of Dwight’s former evil love interest, Manute. Also making a return are Gail and Miho, both residents of ‘Old Town’ in Sin City.
Dwight now, sporting a ‘new look’ is in the apartment of his new lover, Shellie, when her former rowdy, violent and abusive boyfriend, ‘Jackie boy’ and his posse of losers come knocking at her door.
Dwight is unafraid to confront the goons, but an assertive Shellie, reminds him that it is her home and asks him to conceal himself.
As Dwight hides in her apartment, Shellie opens the door to let in Jackie boy and his thugs.
Hiding in Shellie’s bathroom, Dwight is seething in anger as he overhears Jackie, taunt and physically abuse Shellie. He gets his chance, as Jackie momentarily comes to the bathroom, to relieve himself. Dwight, who is gifted with quick hands, inflicts a harsh and humiliating treatment, on Jackie, unbeknownst to the other thugs in the apartment. He threatens Jackie to leave immediately to avoid any further trouble.
Jackie, now feeling a mix of fear, shame and an increasing rage, leaves the apartment in haste, along with his ‘troops’.
Sensing that Jackie’s unstable mental rage was going to cause some serious damage somewhere in the city, Dwight follows him and his dangerous mob. As he is leaving, Shellie desperately tries to stop him, with an ominous warning about Jackie, that Dwight does not accurately hear. I was not fully convinced, as to why Dwight would follow the thugs, but well..
Jackie and the thugs drive to one of the most dangerous and deadly part of town, with Dwight in pursuit. Noticing Jackie’s high speed driving, a cop car follows the mob, but abandons the pursuit, when the car’s driver realizes that Jackie’s car, is making its way to Old Town. Old Town is that part of Sin City that is inhabited and governed by Sin City’s beautiful and Amazonian hookers. These women are both, skilled in combat, and heavily armed.
For high paying patrons, Old Town offers its carnal services, but only for those, who play by its rules. Anyone who misbehaves or disrespects Old Town’s inhabitants , will be subject to a swift and deadly sentence. Dwight has a History two Old Town’s inhabitants, Gail, who is madly in love him, and Miho, who, the tiny and dangerous Katana wielding female warrior. The women on Sin City have saved Dwight, from impending death and have given him a new look, after his face was damaged in a past violent encounter. Dwight is grateful to the women.
Dwight arrives in Old Town and tries to prevent Jackie and his crew from their painful fate. His efforts are in vain, when the arrogant thugs, intimidate and anger the hookers and meet their death, at the hands of deadly Miho. Soon Dwight realizes that the hookers of Old Town are now in unimaginable mortal danger.
As he goes through the pockets of Jackie Boy’s corpse, Dwight finds his wallet which reveals that Jackie is a decorated member of Sin City’s police force. The killing of a cop, could break a truce between the police and the hookers and would place the women in an unwinnable, bloody war with the law.
Dwight must do all he can to protect the ones who gave him a new leash on life. He has no chance but to hide Jackie’s body in one of Sin City’s key locales, ‘The Santa Yolanda Tar Pits’ a former amusement park but now, a putrid and abandoned part of the city. While Dwight is facing unforeseen formidable challenges in this endeavor,( including hallucinations about having conversations with Jackie’s corpse ), a mysterious party is trying to take advantage of the situation. A mole among the hookers, has revealed all the happenings in Old Town, to a powerful person, who has been looking for an opportunity, to take control of Sin City. Now with the hookers, up to their necks in their predicament, this party and his army of mercenaries, begin their invasion of Old Town.
Can Dwight handle his challenges, and save Old Town from the takeover, by mobilizing the brave Amazon warriors? This is a daunting proposition, as the invading army, outnumbers the Amazon Women. The story that is told from Dwight’s perspective, briefly references a tale of myth. Frank Miller will narrate this epic saga, about a small army of Spartans who hold off a giant Persian army in another iconic graphic novel, which which in turn will be adapted in a movie.
The Big Fat Kill is a tale of a war between two of Sin City’s most dangerous armed factions where victory is the only way to survive, for one of them. Like most Sin City yarns, it is fast paced and packed with action and intrigue.
This is another riveting yarn based in Frank Miller’s neo noir Universe of Sin City. It is reminiscent of mob movies, like ‘Scarface’ or James Cagney’s ‘The Public Enemy’, from the Precode era. Needless to say, it comes with high recommendations from me.
