Sin City #1

Frank Miller's Sin City arrives in Dutch as Een Wreed Vaarwel — "A Cruel Goodbye" — from De Vliegende Hollander in 2009. The cover, rendered in Miller's razor-sharp black and white, fills the frame with a battered, weathered face plastered with rectangular scraps of paper or photographs, projecting a mood of grim, fragmented menace. It's a striking introduction to Miller's hard-boiled world for Dutch-language readers, with that bold red title bar anchoring the stark imagery perfectly.