Frank Miller to Plumb Heretofore Unimaginable Depths of Awfulness

[Fifthfiend]

Batman Takes Aim at Osama
The Caped Crusader Targets Al Qaeda in a Forthcoming Graphic Novel, But Patriotism in Comics Is Nothing New

At the WonderCon 2006 comic-book convention in San Francisco last weekend, legendary comics writer and artist Frank Miller revealed that Batman would hunt down bin Laden and al Qaeda in his next DC Comics graphic novel.

In "Holy Terror, Batman!" the Caped Crusader goes after the terror leader and his organization after Gotham City is attacked by terrorists. Though the graphic novel's title is a take on Robin the Boy Wonder's catchphrase, Miller said there was nothing campy about the story.

There is no part of this that I can imagine not being utterly awful.

Why do people keep giving Frank Miller money to write comic books about Batman?

[Archbio]

"Are you dense? Are you retarded? He's the goddamn Frank Miller!"
I'm sorry, I was compelled into doing it!
Thank you.

[TheBlindMime]

Originally Posted by Archbio

"Are you dense? Are you retarded? He's the goddamn Frank Miller!"
I'm sorry, I was compelled into doing it!
Thank you.

Damn straight!
Frank Miller doth compel us!
And if you don't like it coming from just archbio how bout we listen to frank miller for a second.

Originally Posted by Goddamn Frank Miller!

"The Greeks had their gods and heroes. We have ours. … What are they there for?"

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Archbio

"Are you dense? Are you retarded? He's the goddamn Frank Miller!"
I'm sorry, I was compelled into doing it!
Thank you.

Beautifully timed and flawlessly executed. 10.0s across the board.
(3.2 from the Russian judge.)

I'm not sure what's going to be worse - where it turns out that the whole point of this is to scale Frank Miller's Batman-as-pedophile motif up to outright anal rape, or when it turns out that Osama Bin Laden is actually Superman!!!

Originally Posted by TheBlindMime

Damn straight!
Frank Miller doth compel us!
And if you don't like it coming from just archbio how bout we listen to frank miller for a second.

Now I hate to assume, but at least the way that I read AB's comment was as a sardonic reference to a Frank Miller line which has been held up by many as the shining summation of the utter shit-cockery that is Frank Miller's All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Stalking Victim and Abductee, that ongoing statement of Miller's utter hatred of everything, especially his audience's intelligence. I could, of course, be wrong.

[Archbio]

Maybe the whole point of this is to be an experiment to test how long Miller can go before he runs out of credit from his earlier work.

But in any case, the eventual, very gritty confrontation between Batman and Superman is an added bonus. With a lot of out of character growling, of course.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Archbio

Maybe the whole point of this is to be an experiment to test how long Miller can go before he runs out of credit from his earlier work.

Yeah, I can actually see him doing that.

"Okay, next I'll have Batman skin a kitten alive and then wear it as a hat! Let's see if they'll actually pay me money for that!"

[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.

But if you want a sardonic statement or two; Frank Miller's next book follows batman as he trails through the wilderness in an attempt to catch and stop Dick Cheney before he fires his rifle into any more hapless hunters.

Should be genius.

[Fifthfiend]

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.

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.

[TheBlindMime]

Obviously, I'm outclassed as a nerd here, with all the rapid name dropping, I'm unable to continue. So on everything save the following point I must falter.

The people who are revolutionary and improve upon what we expect as fans often end up failing us because we expect them to continue to revolutionize their own works which they often can't do. A la George Lucas. But liike a fan/amnesiac/alzheimers patient I'm going to wait until 2007, buy the book and see how it came out rather then judge it today.
The next set of spoilers are jokes, so don't be a wuss about it and take it like a man.
Also.... CT told me to call you a fatty. Which you are! Fatty fatty fat fat!

But I've decided to rise above that. No I didn't

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by TheBlindMime

Obviously, I'm outclassed as a nerd here, with all the rapid name dropping, I'm unable to continue.

I've never won at something and felt quite so much like a loser for it.

Originally Posted by TheBlindMime

The people who are revolutionary and improve upon what we expect as fans often end up failing us because we expect them to continue to revolutionize their own works which they often can't do. A la George Lucas. But liike a fan/amnesiac/alzheimers patient I'm going to wait until 2007, buy the book and see how it came out rather then judge it today.

Believe it or not I actually had a whole tangent worked out about how Frank Miller was like the George Lucas of comic books.

Probably for the best I decided not to go there.

Originally Posted by TheBlindMime

Also.... CT told me to call you a fatty. Which you are! Fatty fatty fat fat!

No, I mean, I've been thinking I could stand to lose a few pounds.

But not as many as Cheshire Thief, because he's a big fatty fat-face!