Miller created the definitive Alpha and Omega of Batman’s existence, namely Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, respectively, and he did it all within a year or two. What is even more interesting is that Batman would not be who he is today if not for the Frank Miller of the mid 1980’s. When this did not happen I felt a little disappointed, however I soon realized that while it was not the same and perhaps not as revolutionary, it was still well done and an important Batman book.īatman as a character would not be who he is today if it were not for Frank Miller. At first, I was excited to get that same feeling I got when I first read The Dark Knight Returns. Several years later, Miller’s sequel, The Dark Knight Strikes Again came out. This piece of art showed me that there was more to comics, and that they could be just as literary as any novel. Then one day I picked up the trade paperback of The Dark Knight Returns and forever I was changed, as are many people when they read Frank Miller’s dark tale of an elderly, nearly broken Batman. It was just over ten years ago and I had recently come back to comics about a year earlier and had returned to what I knew, namely superhero comics. This is the graphic novel that paved the way for me (and many other comic book fans) to enter the world of more mature and intelligent comic books.
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