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09/22/09
So welcome to last year Frank Miller.
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Between it and Miller's Year One, its pretty much responsible for the whole "dark and gritty" world of comics that you mention. It seems the norm now but when it came out it wasn't. It was also one of the first books to delve into the whole idea of batman as a necessary "evil".
The only reason I think your unimpressed now is that so much of what DKR did was incorporated into who and what the character is that you take it for granted now.
I think the general consensus now is that Miller has lost it. The stuff he used to put out doesn't even compare to what he puts out now. I don't think anyone talks about him in a favorable light anymore.
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I mean... Miller has Batman unable to even duck a single punch, for christ's sake.
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I got no problem with dark characters or even a more violent Batman. What I do have a problem with is shoddy story telling and one dimensional characters. I have the feeling that I would have liked the Dark Knight when I was fifteen. I would have loved the whole gloves made out of kryptonite thing.
But I think as one gets older your tastes evolve. You want good story telling, complex characters, and not just uber violence and big tits. I think it's a bit sad that the comic book industry, in general, hasn't evolved as well.
But I'm more than willing to change or modify my opinion if someone wants to try to change it.
09/21/09
And by pick up I mean download illegally of course.
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The whole private army thing was stupid as were the silly Super Girls or whatever the fuck they were called. There were just so many things I don't understand why they went into that book because all it did was make it seem incoherent to me.
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Batman chases him on a jetpack and pulls out a handgun loaded with a kryptonite bullet.
Bruce briefly mentions the vow he made when he started to never use a gun on someone, but says that he is more than willing to break it to keep the one he made to Clark when he handed him several stones of Kryptonite just for cases like this.
Batman manages to shoot Supes in the back and when he hits the ground he quickly removes the mind controll device and fishes out the bullet so that the wound can close up and Superman can recover.
I think Bats apologize but then Clark just tells them that he knew he made the right decision to give him the kryptonite and thanks him.
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Kind of an expensive package... so maybe you should look into torrenting it just for that story.
It wasn't that long either, just 10 pages or so.
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I pray to all that is sacred and holy in this world that this is not the Holy Terror project Miller has been threatening for years.
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Frank Miller + writing + Batman = FAIL
Actually, make that
Frank Miller + x = FAIL, where x can take on any value.
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It seems like he took everything that was once good about himself and exaggerated it to such an extreme that its a parody of itself now.
Completely unrelated but that has to be the best stuff I've seen Adams put out in, well, ever.
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Here's another image with an armed Batman.
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Reintroducing that in the context of this day and age without real contextual explanation of why it's happening really ruins the moment. It's exactly why All-Star Batman and Robin was so damn hilarious. If it had been written like that 30 years ago, it would've been edgy and cool. Now it's campy and silly.
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This is not the first time Batman has been depicted with a gun nor will it be the last.
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