The question is: how does such a successful aesthetic option apply to other features? Making the 300 book (2006), Frank Miller is responsible for story and drawings, and has left colouring to Lynn Varley. As with Sin City, their book IS the storyboard to the film directed by Zack Snyder. The whole film is in hues of brown and sepia, which is the most obvious iconographic variation from Sin City. Indeed, the former bears strong similarities with the latter: it is dark, with patches of bright red, whether as details in the picture or as the colour of the font on the poster. The narrative thread is enhanced by a voice over, a recurrent component both in Sin City and The Spirit.