Frank Miller Wants to Write Captain America
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It's sometimes hard to believe that the guy who wrote this...
...is the same guy who wrote this...
Yikes
That's pretty much the Republican party line these days, so if he's a lunatic, his lunacy is shared by about half the country.
Frank Miller did a cool Spider-Man Annual back in the day with Doctor Strange in it. That Frank Miller would have been great on a Doctor Strange series. Today's Frank Miller just needs inpatient care.
As for Steve Englehart-- I'd mostly like to see more Coyote, but I'd read just about anything he decides to write. Hopefully he's got some more Max August novels in him.
As for Steve Englehart-- I'd mostly like to see more Coyote, but I'd read just about anything he decides to write. Hopefully he's got some more Max August novels in him.
I saw a bit of xenophobia in Miller's original Daredevil and Wolverine issues; haven't read 300 but what I have read of his work has still generally been well-done, with the '80s work great, and I think it's interesting how intense the backlash has been against him for making an irreverent version of Batman and irreverent real-world commentary against Occupy.
I always felt that way about TDKR, even though I liked (and still like) the book.
Oh, he's a racist all right. Consider: He's fine with black. But if you're green and/or purple, he'll persecute you to no end.
TDKR was totally nuts. And what's with the feet?
Actually it's been remarked on frequently - just not in fanboy circles. Critics who reviewed DKR upon its release frequently mentioned what a fascist fantasy it was. And no one could read Miller's entire body of work and not notice his basic whacko tendencies. Personally I quit reading him about 5 pages into the first issue of Sin City.
DKR was important because there's a fascist, might-makes-right subtext to almost all superhero stories and Miller took it from subtext to text, making it visible and much easier to critique (though this is frequently lost on comic readers themselves - of which I am one and who also missed it for many years). That's interesting to do - once. Keep hitting that discordant key long after every one has said, "Heard you, man - thanks" and you do begin to appear to be a drooling idiot lost in your own violent fantasies.
Among other TDKR influences in the Nolan films, the "fake Batmen" in The Dark Knight are somewhat reminiscent of TDKR's Sons of the Batman.
Frank Miller is a complete nut-job and I can't say I'm too much a fan of his take on Batman, even before "All_Star Goddamn Batman and Dick Grayson, Age 12."
He seems to take Batman as just a complete psychopath prowling the streets who's almost as much of a danger to Gotham as those in his rogues gallery.
Granting that Bruce has to be some degree of "crazy" to do what he does, but I've always taken it that he's just more very, very, intense. But still completely in control of his mental faculties and, extreme circumstances aside, his rage. I mean a man cannot be crazy and still have the mental-capacity to make a choice to not kill a criminal.
He seems to take Batman as just a complete psychopath prowling the streets who's almost as much of a danger to Gotham as those in his rogues gallery.
Granting that Bruce has to be some degree of "crazy" to do what he does, but I've always taken it that he's just more very, very, intense. But still completely in control of his mental faculties and, extreme circumstances aside, his rage. I mean a man cannot be crazy and still have the mental-capacity to make a choice to not kill a criminal.
Remember that guy who did (I think) the America's Most Wanted TV show; the one who was motivated by the kidnapping and murder of his son? He's Batman in the real world, and Batman is him in superhero world. Frank Miller not only re-imagined him as a dangerous, anti-social psychopath, but inspired decades of second-rate wannabes to write him that way, too.
Well said. Each is vastly overrated--and completely bought into it.
As for the notion of Miller writing CA? Why not? It's not like he would tarnish the general direction taken by Marvel over the past couple of decades. Cap's best days are long in the past--or in the movies, to a point.
"Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push."
