#Sin city a dame to kill for series#

Upon Dwight's insistence, Marv drives him to Old Town, they're followed by a police car and when the police reach Old Town, they're met by a hailstorm of bullets, revealing to the reader that Cops have no authority in Old Town. Dwight once again falls out of a window and is picked up and saved by Marv. She shoots Dwight six times, including once in the face. Ava tells Dwight she never loved him or Damien, that she's waited years to 'be in charge', even goes so far as to call herself 'evil'. As Dwight panics, realizing what he has done, Ava appears, and explains how Dwight was all a part of her plan to murder Damien whilst keeping her hands clean, so she can inherit his estate. When Damien fires, Dwight beats him to death.

When he finds him in his office, Damien calls Ava pathological and pulls a gun on Dwight. With Manute and the guards occupied, Dwight makes his way to Damien. Marv tackles the guards as a distraction and eventually takes on Manute, ripping his right eye out and beating him savagely.

Both drunk as they approach the mansion, Dwight insists Marv leave the punk's gun, which Marv has procured, in the car. Dwight convinces Marv, over several drinks and whilst watching Nancy dance, to help him storm Damien's estate. But after calling Kadie 'a cow' and Marv 'ugly', Marv quickly and easily knocks him flat the rest quickly scatter. At first Marv is patient, warning the out-of-towners not to offend Kadie or himself and further. He awakens to see Manute driving off with Ava.ĭetermined to rescue her, Dwight arrives at Kadie’s, where Marv is in the middle of a squabble with some out-of-town punks and the bar owner Kadie. Dwight is knocked out of his upper story apartment window to the street below, where he blacks out momentarily. Manute arrives and violently beats Dwight when he tries to defend her. She confesses to Dwight she came to him that night for one last night of love before Manute kills her, but then says she realizes she is not ready to die. Ava talks about how her husband regularly charges Manute with abusing her physically, believing soon Damien will go too far and kill her. Following a heated argument, they eventually reconcile and make love. Dwight calls Agamemnon for a ride home and they stop several times for fast food.Īs Dwight arrives home, he finds his Ford Mustang returned and his door unlocked. Manute pretends not to recognize him from the bar in front of Damien then beats him brutally before throwing him from a car into the street. Ava comes to investigate and Dwight pretends not to know her, worried his presence may make things bad for Ava.

He is discovered and claims that he is simply a Peeping Tom when Manute and Damien become involved. He decides to check up on Ava.Īt Ava's estate, Dwight hops a fence and uses his photography equipment to find Ava swimming in the nude. Ava is reluctant to go, but when Dwight attempts to defend her, she convinces him to stand down, asking him to remember her before she leaves. But just then, Manute, Damien Lord's valet, arrives and takes Ava away. Ava arrives late (as she often used to) and attempts to convince Dwight her life is a 'living hell' and begs for his forgiveness Dwight refuses to listen until Ava mentions she believes she will soon be dead. Dwight is suspicious of her, as Ava broke his heart four years ago by running off with another richer man, Damien Lord, but the lure of seeing her again is too powerful and he agrees to meet her anyway. That night he receives a call from a woman named Ava Lord, asking him to meet her at a seedy bar called Kadie's Club Pecos. The story begins as Dwight McCarthy, working as a photographer for a grossly overweight man named Agamemnon, saves one of the Old Town prostitutes, Sally, from one of her customers, whom Dwight was investigating on behalf of his wife he then drives her back to Old Town. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office failure compared to the positive reception and financial success of the first Sin City film in 2005. The 2014 film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is partly based on the graphic novel along with Just Another Saturday Night and two original segments written by Miller for the film. It has since been reprinted in graphic novel format in four separate editions. It is the second story in Miller's Sin City series, and the first to be published in miniseries format.

#Sin city a dame to kill for series#

A Dame to Kill For is a comic book limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller and first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1993.