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2006-02-15 Home Front: WoT

Holy Terror, Batman! Batman kicks Al Qaeda's ass.

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Posted by tipper 2006-02-15 10:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I had a serious comics book phase lasting about a decade, from 1990 to 2001 approximately, and I'm still a fan of several writers/artists, because I'm adorky fanboy.
The Frank Miller's Daredevil run was great, even if falling to the 1980's ninja craze; I've liked his others productions as well, and really liked how his style evolved along the years. IMHO, he's better as an artist ("Sin city", "The 300") than as a writer (from his tutelage by O' Neil he has a legacy of "deconstructed narratives" used to hide bad scenarii from others writers), but I've no doubt he's one of the most interesting talents around there.

This, I may probably buy.

By the way, I wonder where Miller stands, politically?
On one hand he's very anti-Reagan, who's caricatured in several books, but he's also very wary of liberals and progressives (as seen in "Liberty" for example, with the feeble Carter-like new president). His ideal seems to be the strong, free, individual (preferably a female) who makes his own rules, and his position on say child abuse ("let them kiddies abusers have their balls eaten by german shepherds") or homosexuality (many of his bad guys are homos) is really not PC.
Some kind of libertarian?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-15 10:49|| 2006-02-15 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe Frank Miller admires pure freedom and personal responsibility above any political considerations. I guess Libertarian is as good a label as any.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-02-15 20:35|| 2006-02-15 20:35|| Front Page Top

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