“I wish the entertainers of our time had the spine and the focus of the ones who faced down Hitler,” Miller said. “I just think it’s silly to have Batman out chasing the Riddler when you’ve got al Qaeda out there.”
Holy Terror, Batman , what Frank Miller hopes to be a Batman-versus-al Qaeda throw back to days the of Dirty Harry. I’d just settle for a throw back to the days when Frank Miller wrote stuff that didn’t suck.
“It won’t do much to stop terrorism,” said Larry Gonick, a San Francisco cartoonist who has written more than a dozen comics that explain history and science. “Given Miller’s propensity for portraying sadism as reasonable, it may reinforce the readers’ approval of, or even enthusiasm for, torture. Like the TV show ‘24.’ Or ‘Sin City.’ “
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