A Review of "The Dark Knight Returns" - and my own objections!
The article below is repasted in its entirety and so far without permission (without malice and without commercial use either!) from Reviews by Maurice Broaddus, at http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/comments/maurice/2006/01/dark-knight-returns.html
Saturday, January 07, 2006
The Dark Knight Returns
Time and time again I am asked about comic books ( Read more... )
(And that is the overwhelming reason I believe "The Dark Knight Returns" to be one of the biggest comic book travesties ever written: purely and simply because it is against the original ideal of the medium, which was LIBERALISM.)
Frank Miller of course pretends otherwise, and actually pretends he is "in tune with" and has common cause with (he says this in his dedication!) in particular, those two young working-class Jewish boys, Siegel and Shuster, who invented the entire men-in-tights genre!!
I DON'T THINK HE IS, VERY MUCH, SOMEHOW....
That's the trouble with most modern reworkings, they're phoney.... They pretend to be "in tune with the original" when they're quite the opposite!! But Frank Miller more than most, I think, because he has what I would describe as some seriously sinister right-wing ideas. It's all apparent from what he thinks of women, gays, Jews and liberals. I find that to be quite plain. He's anti-minority. That's what I'm saying. (Maybe less anti-black then anti-other-things, because he may just find Jews and liberals to be "elitist"... I'm sure he's got a fairly blue-collar family background, actually, and is therefore wont to think in such a manner, like many lower-class conservatives in the USA who now vote for G. W. Bush.)
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