Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Gets 5 Dark And Gritty New Character Posters

This year at the cinema is filled with all kinds of big sci-fi and superhero comic book action, with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy all hitting theaters worldwide, but a comic book movie of a completely different variety will be arriving in theaters this August. After nearly a full decade of being in the works, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is finally ready to make its big screen debut this summer. It's been a good long while since we've seen anything from the sequel - the last footage coming in the form of a teaser released last month - but doing their part to help stop the drought today are five brand new character posters.

Hosted by Fandango, IGN, EW, IMDb, and MTV, the various posters show off characters both familiar and new to audiences who enjoyed the first Sin City back in 2005 - so let's break them down, shall we? Up top we have the beautiful Jessica Alba, who returns in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For as Nancy Callahan - who this time will be the protagonist of her own short story written specifically for the screen by Frank Miller. It pairs well with the Marv one-sheet below, which shows Mickey Rourke back under heavy prosthetic makeup and wielding a shotgun.