Article: Comic Relief; Finally, Sin City is a movie based on a comic book that does its source material justice.

There have been plenty of good comic book movies over the years--from Superman II to Spider-Man 2--and Road To Perdition had a fundamentally accurate visual sensibility. But no one has ever shown the commitment to fidelity that Robert Rodriguez displays in Sin City. In the past, comic book innovator Frank Miller has had to watch his work turned into movies like Daredevil and Elektra--the kind of thing that inspires a whole lotta fetal position rocking. This time around, he got a director willing to quit the Director's Guild of America in order to preserve Miller's indelible stamp. And he got a movie so dialed-in to its graphic novel roots that it practically creates a new visual language.

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