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Frank Miller: still irrelevant

OMG this will be a $200 dollar comic book instantly !

Damn them all.

"All copies destroyed" my ass. Nice publicity stunt though...

If I am a comic shop owner I am sure I would "destroy" every copy...

/in a safe in my basement

DjangoStonereaver: Frank, Frank, Frank.....

What happened to you man?

You used to be so brilliant.......

Someone explained the All Star Batman & Robin as giving the fans exactly what they wanted.

Gritty, foul mouthed Batman written by Frank Miller and drawn by Jim Lee.

I totally think Miller is phoning this in and not even trying because what the fans want is just cliche material over and over again. I really think to him it's all one big joke and that's why the line "God damn Batman" seems to work it's way into almost every issue.

But that was just one person's theory, not mine.

I think he's too busy producing movies now, he's moved onto a new medium.

/Spirit FTW.
//can't wait to see that

SpinStopper: To quote Frank Zappa, "It's just words."

;)

But they're dirty, filthy, nasty words!!!

Having read the first couple issues of the comic, mere destruction is too good for it. It's unbelievably awful.

Aww, the image didn't show up. Lemme try that again:

Aww, the image didn't show up. Lemme try that again:

*sigh*

Well, I'm just a bug bundle of failure today, aren't I?

Think I'm gonna go back to bed.

I'm convinced Miller is farking sick of Batman and just wants to get fired.

Bondidude: I really think to him it's all one big joke and that's why the line "God damn Batman" seems to work it's way into almost every issue.

It definitely is all a joke now, but I'm of the opinion that it didn't begin as a joke. The early couple of issues (before the giant hiatus that was the delays surrounding I believe issue 4) take themselves far more seriously than the later ones.

/Spirit FTW.
//can't wait to see that

I think you're the first person I've seen who's said that.

That said: you're wrong on the headline, submitter. It may be the "Goddamned Batman", but it's the "farking Batgirl".

g026r: /Spirit FTW.
//can't wait to see that

I think you're the first person I've seen who's said that.

Really?

I've not read much Eisner, but I did enjoy what I've read. And with Miller behind the wheel producing, it's going to be a very interesting movie, if nothing else, visually.

"This arcade belongs to the farking Batgirl" is one of the greatest comic book lines ever.

Yeah, a superhero using profanity would be pretty shocking...if we were still in 1955. Somebody should send DC editors a copy of:



Now that's not safe for kids. I think we can live with Batgirl dropping the F-bomb.

t3knomanser: 300", the comic sucked. I didn't bother with the movie.

It sucked.

bukketmaster: Yeah, a superhero using profanity would be pretty shocking...if we were still in 1955. Somebody should send DC editors a copy of:



Now that's not safe for kids. I think we can live with Batgirl dropping the F-bomb.

Does anybody know if this book is actually any good? I'm a big Moore fan, so I'm curious if it would be worth the shiatstorm I would get into with the wife for owning such a thing.

gO26r:

I was lucky enough to meet Eisner about a year and a half before he died. In general, I'd be interested in "The Spirit," but Frank Miller's gone off the deep end.

During the trailer (with music that sounds like it was stolen from "The Untouchables"), when the narrator says something like, "The City is my mother, it's my lover..." there were a lot of laughs. Maybe the City is in West Virginia.

I'm afraid we might end up with "I'm the goddamn Spirit, that's why" and little else.

Anyone recall that story from eariler this year where Catwoman and Batgirl are fighting naked?
I didn't hear anyone complaining about that.

For those that were reading this comic run (I haven't), there's a particular article regarding it that I happen to find hilarious every time I read it. Thought I'd share it with you.

"All Suck Batman and Robin" (new window)

Straelbora: During the trailer (with music that sounds like it was stolen from "The Untouchables"), when the narrator says something like, "The City is my mother, it's my lover..." there were a lot of laughs. Maybe the City is in West Virginia.

I almost laughed at the line about leaving the mask on, though that may be because it reminded me of that really bad Batman/Black Canary scene from one of the previous issues of All-Star Batman & Robin.

The moment I saw it was being done in that high-contrast with touches of colour B&W that Sin City was done in (not appropriate for The Spirit!), my hopes sank. Then I saw Miller's name, and I realised it's another project that's fallen victim to the blame eater.

/The backlash against comic-based movies is coming.

any comic store owner would be farkin retarded to destroy any copies. RETARDED. however they shouldn't sell them immediately. Keep them on wraps for a week or two. have a "anonymous seller" sell them one.

blame eater should be brain-eater. Dunno how I messed that up.

t3knomanser: DjangoStonereaver: You used to be so brilliant.......

When was that? Oh, he had a few hits. He single handedly reinvented Batman when it was desperately needed. A few of the stories in Sin City were pretty good. And then we get shiat like Ronin, 300. When he gets license to do what he wants, we get garbage.



Dark Knight, Electra, Sin City, Daredevil, HardBoiled? He's had more than a few good turns, an amazing early career. So, he's become a right-winger nutcase in his dotage, he's hardly the first artist to lose his critical and creative faculties.

Slam his stuff all you want now, and there isn't a woodshed big enough to take him behind imo, but he deserved those kudos back then.

deadsanta: So, he's become a right-winger nutcase in his dotage

Read DKR again and you'll realize that he was always a right-wing-nutter. He just used to be a talented one. DKR's characters feel like they're lifted directly from a Jerry Pournelle book, only without the suck.

Miller's work is pretty much all noir/pulp crammed together with 1980's hyper-masculine movies.

While his stuff worked for the time of the early 90s and 80s now it just feels dated and weak. Like most of the industry has moved on but he's stuck in the same time period and unable to go any deeper.

This explained why the #10 release suddenly moved from today to two weeks from now...

Link (new window)

/does not approve

Most of Miller's "edge" was swiped from Denny O'Neil and 70s Detective Stories.

/300 was borderline gay porn.
//Still remember the 300 video to the tune of "It's Raining Men".

Oh, yeah. She's a dirty girl.....

Pxtl: bukketmaster: Yeah, a superhero using profanity would be pretty shocking...if we were still in 1955. Somebody should send DC editors a copy of:



Now that's not safe for kids. I think we can live with Batgirl dropping the F-bomb.

Does anybody know if this book is actually any good? I'm a big Moore fan, so I'm curious if it would be worth the shiatstorm I would get into with the wife for owning such a thing.

I bought it right after reading Watchmen. The art is very cartoony/waterbrush, and there isn't much of a story. I tried reading it, and just stopped.

now that's a batgirl i could get behind

reilmb: OMG this will be a $200 dollar comic book instantly !

Damn them all.

Imagine that, putting a premium price on "swear words".
Someone call Andrew Dice Clay and tell him that his career just got yanked out of the "Stale Produce" bins of history!

Ah, the Internet, where pussy-wimp censors are not celebrated and the total content of the viewed writing is considered as a whole and not as a hole.

For those not willing to squint (and look away now for bad language) the offending balloons read:

Hey-- you little coont--

fark me that little coont stole my board!

fark you twice, DICKWAD, you let a farking little piece of jailbait

ASS steal your wheels...

...little jailbait coont's making us look bad... we cut her come on...

...sweet piece in sweet slices... tasty sliced booty the little coont...

And these ASSHOLES make a devil's fortune of it

Text every friend you've got, shiatheads--

Sell your poison somewhere else. This arcade belongs to the

farking Batgirl.

// Such delicate sensibilities. (Chuckles)

Why didn't someone tell her to shut her whore mouth?

/ am I the 1st to think of this ?

Pxtl

bukketmaster: Yeah, a superhero using profanity would be pretty shocking...if we were still in 1955. Somebody should send DC editors a copy of:



Now that's not safe for kids. I think we can live with Batgirl dropping the F-bomb.

Does anybody know if this book is actually any good? I'm a big Moore fan, so I'm curious if it would be worth the shiatstorm I would get into with the wife for owning such a thing.

I enjoyed it. I think whether you like it or not may depend on how you feel about breaking sexual taboos (because just about every one is broken), and if you can look past the titillation of the sex and see why the characters are having sex.

/heh heh, I said tit.