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Originally Posted by TheBlindMime
I'm not so much into the recent wave of slighting miller, yeah he's done some stuff that wasn't up to par with his early work but he will all run into slumps. I just think he's trying to pay homage to the original use of comic books which was propaganda, as the majority of our stories are.
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Hey, I would be happy to stop slighting Miller, if only Miller would stop writing horrible comic books about Batman.*
I'm just saying, there's a pretty wide gap between a "slump" that "wasn't up to par with his early work" and the deliberate plodding awfulness of his recent product. I mean maybe it could explain why the books are so bad on a technical level, but that still can't account for the deliberate decision to turn Batman into a delusional retard whose child fixation gets creepier with every book. It's like when a baseball player has a "slump" it means he's swinging at the ball and missing, not when he runs from the box still clutching the bat and cracks his own team's manager across the skull.
And the thing is, it's not like this is all somehow in the past - he is
currently engaged in the
ongoing production of the aforementioned awful product. So whether or not you call it a slump, he's still apparently in it.
And, I mean, I might be able to muster the slightest suspension of cynicism here, if this recent proposal were not such a forthrightly awful idea. I mean you know, if it were 3 1/2 years ago, then yeah, maybe. At this point, I don't see how this will be anything other than a lot of intelligence-insulting nonsense about how liberals are not sufficiently frightened of the Great Arab Menace. I mean World War II propaganda was dandy, but this
isn't World War II.
Sure, there's a great superhero book out there to be written about the political and military state of the world - and Mark Millar is
already writing it, it's called The Ultimates, go read it, it's fantastic. Miller's dumbed-down Me-Too! nonsense was played out when he was churning out a hacked-up, jizz-smeared reprint of Kingdom Come and calling it Dark Knight Strikes Again, now he's going to do the same thing but this time featuring
The Terrrrrah!!? Really, just,
no.
*Frank Millar is totally allowed to write all the awful comic books about the Greeks at Thermopylae that he likes.