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    Cover of Hard Boiled

    Hard Boiled

    Frank Miller, Geof Darrow · 1993

    "Intricate, kinetic, and thoroughly outrageous!" - Rolling Stone Winner of comics' prestigious Eisner Award! Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the ultimate robot killing machine - and the last hope of the future's enslaved mechanical servants. And - somehow - they're all the same psychotic entity. Frank Miller and Geof Darrow have created a visual masterpiece!

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    3mentions
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    2022–2026years
    67% recommend33% neutral

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    1. stuart78Jul 2026
      This is a bit of an idiosyncratic list. Two of my favorite additions from my own youth: Hard Boiled by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow and Batman: Digital Justice. The latter now reads like a bit of a corny cash grab for the early '90s cyber fad, but I still love the time capsule of some if its art.
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    2. xoxxalaJul 2026
      It took me twice as long to read Hard Boiled as it should since I spent so much time looking at Geof Darrow’s intricately detailed art. Great story, but the illustrations are on another level.
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    3. pmoriartyApr 2022
      There's a striking similarity between Josan Gonzalez's work and that of Geof Darrow[1] who was famous for his 1990'ish collaboration with Frank Miller on Hard Boiled[2].

      Some samples of Darrow's work: [3] - [8]

      Gonzalez also seems to have a bit of a Moebius vibe.

      [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geof_Darrow

      [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled_(comics)

      [3] - https://i.redd.it/wfb1561hqbe01.jpg

      [4] - https://i.pinimg.com/736x/75/71/f7/7571f7929dfd8f3cef2e32af2...

      [5] - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/68/3e/15/683e154af1fb4fbc267c...

      [6] - https://d2lzb5v10mb0lj.cloudfront.net/common/salestools/prev...

      [7] - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d9/48/de/d948de58e6cd3ccc01cc...

      [8] - https://i.pinimg.com/474x/2a/08/11/2a081125fc927a628f1dfb2b1...

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