Already in this set of posts we’ve looked at Frank Miller’s career before The Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 and 2), and performed close readings of that series’ respective four chapters (Parts 3, 4, 5, and 6). And the last time around, in Part 7, we examined the character of Batman both before and after [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Dark Knight Returns’
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apocalypse, Batman, Batman XXX, Corto Maltese, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, nuclear winter, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Sense of an Ending, Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky, Vivid Entertainment on June 28, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 | Part 8 Greetings again after much too long a while. Since the last installment in this series, the new pornographers at Vivid have announced, written, shot, and released Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, so it’s well past [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Batman: Dead End, Corto Maltese, David Letterman, Frank Miller, Hugo Pratt, Neal Adams, Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Lady from Shanghai on April 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Monday was David Letterman‘s birthday, making this an okey-dokey time to talk about Book Three of The Dark Knight Returns, “Hunt the Dark Knight”… Let’s plunge right into it!
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, DC Comics, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Mark of Zorro, Understanding Comics on March 15, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Part one of this series surveyed Miller’s comics work prior to his landmark 1986 miniseries Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; part two summarized the innovations in printing technology that Miller and his colorist Lynn Varley [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Detective Comics, Dick Giordano, Frank Miller, Hergé, Klaus Janson, Lynne Varley, Ronin, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, Tintin, Understanding Comics, Watchmen, X-Men on February 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Frank Miller released the sixth and last issue of Ronin in August 1984. Not everyone was sure what to make of the limited series, but Miller and his colorist, Lynn Varley, emerged from the project [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 300, A Contract with God, Batman, Chris Claremont, comics, cyberpunk, Daredevil, DC, Elektra, First Comics, Frank Miller, Gold Key, Goseki Kojima, graphic novels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jenette Kahn, Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, manga, Marvel Comics, Robert Crumb, Robert Rodriguez, Ronalds Printing, Ronin, Sin City, The Comics Journal, The Dark Knight Returns, The Spirit, Uncanny X-Men, will eisner, Wolverine, Zack Snyder on January 23, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 These days, Frank Miller is arguably best-known as a filmmaker. He co-directed Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of his long-running comic Sin City (1991–present), which he followed with his own peculiar 2008 adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic [...]
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