Of course, there has always been good storytelling in comics, but lately it seems to have taken the back seat for the artwork. Artists like Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, and Alex Ross seem to get all the glory, but writers like Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Frank Miller have been turning out great stories for several years now. Where as Moore was the first to bring respect and credibility to the industry with his groundbreaking series Watchmen , it was Miller who brought comic books into the eyes of the general public with his dark and gritty Batman tale , The Dark Knight Returns . Miller, like always, makes good use out of the absurd. As stated before, the family man causes the death of hundreds, while chasing a gun-toting grandmother.
Whole conversations take place with cybernetic bulldogs.
And since it happened on the subway, we can be confident the passengers signed the standard release. The painstaking details sometimes make the plot hard to follow and my suggestion to the reader is that after reading Hard Boiled once, to go back over it and study each panel carefully. Darrow has a surprise hidden on every page. The Kill Restaurant in the bottom right hand corner of page 7 of the first issue. There are the countless muggings and sex acts that occur within every crowd.