Ronin

An interesting work by Miller predating his more famous works (such as The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300), and hailed by some as his first masterpiece, I was definitely engaged for the first half of book one (one of six) concerning a struggle between a masterless unnamed Samurai (a ronin) and a demon-king, but then the story took a drastic swing into a future dystopia where the story we’d just had appeared to be the dream of a limbless boy that controls a giant computer that runs a city….

Whilst imaginative and having some striking visuals, this was nowhere near as engaging as the Miller stories I mention above, and I did struggle to follow exactly what was going on for sections – which made it hard for me to keep interested.

Overall, I recommend the other Miller works mentioned above far ahead of this, but it was visually striking in places and overall worth reading once.

Rating: Odd 6/10