Batman (comics) questions/discussion

[kalowski]

This is a big thread, and I can't be arsed reading it, but I assume someone's mentioned Frank Miller's stuff. The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One are fucking marvellous.
Apart from that, I enjoyed The Long Halloween and Knightfall.

[madhair60]

I just read No Justice and while I enjoyed it overall, christ, big team-up books are tiresome. Cramming the modicum of backstory into every utterance, no room to breathe whatsoever. Introduces a giant multiverse-murdering threat and does away with it in four issues. Leads into Snyder's Justice League, which I have the first volume of but haven't read yet.

Enormously enjoyed Dark Nights: Metal in the end. Very good, very silly.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

I read Dark Knight Returns for the first time recently and I thought it was garbage. "I see a reflection" damn dude so fucking deep

[Spiteface]

This is a big thread, and I can't be arsed reading it, but I assume someone's mentioned Frank Miller's stuff. The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One are fucking marvellous.

All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder is also enjoyable for different reasons:



I assume Miller's #cancelled these days? DKIII is good, though.

[kalowski]

All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder is also enjoyable for different reasons:



I assume Miller's #cancelled these days? DKIII is good, though.

Why is Frank Miller #cancelled? What did I miss?

[Spiteface]

Just generally. Holy Terror, his views on Occupy Wall Street etc.

[Default to the negative]

I don't think he's ever been #cancelled, exactly, but the prevailing opinion is that his work went down the drain after a certain point. The Dark Knight Strikes Again is an incoherent eyesore of a book, and Holy Terror continued this trend. Word is that he became a serious alcoholic for a while, and it fucked up his work.

Alan Moore took a pop at Miller, calling him a fascist. Moore did his usual thing of saying, 'I haven't read anything by Frank Miller in twenty years... but I have an informed opinion on his latest works anyway! (Because obviously I have actually read them.)'