buster00 wrote:Colin wrote:Tell me WHY you think Frank Miller sucks. I'll give you that chance.
Stop being so smug and tell us WHAT IS SO "HILARIOUS" about it that I'm not "getting"? At what point is the Batmobile just going to stand up and do battle with Megatron? If you know for a fact that
Terror is going to be better, I can't wait. I'm tired of getting jerked around.
Miller is an innovator. He never tries the same approach to any character twice. If all he was about was one style he'd get bored pretty quickly. And so would I.
With Batman, Year One was a different approach than DKR, and DKR was a different approach than DK2. If you read the last lines of DK2 on the last page, it pretty much sums up the entire book.
"I used to be sentimental, back when I was old." Tony Millionaire said it best:
"...this looks like it was drawn by a kid with a sharpie pen and coloured by his girlfriend on her mac." Miller even cut the bristol boards and drew the borders himself. It was all about breaking out the pens and grabbing some paper and just drawing this cool fucking story out of his head. And it was. The art stank, sure, but it was still full of life.
With All-Star Batman and Robin, Batman's only been Batman for about a year or so, and he's still only 25 or 26 years old. He's in our age group (I'm assuming the bulk of the members are 20-30 years old), and he's still young and cocky. He still talks like most of us do. Robin's state of mind is exactly how Batman was when his parents were killed in front of him. If you read #2 Batman's trying not to lose it when he looks at him, so he keeps up the cocky demeanor. It's funny because he's the coolest superhero ever, and he
knows it. I mean come on. Are you dense? Are you ALF or something? He's the goddamn Batman!
He's going to be staying on as writer for ASB&R after Lee leaves and Neal Adams takes over. You can bet that his approach will once again shift when the currect story arc finishes.
I'm looking forward to Terror because Miller's bottled up how he's felt about 9/11 for 5 years, and now, just when everything's cooled down, he's gonna let it all out. I can't wait.
So Miller "disappoints" you these days. Is it because he's tired of doing the same old thing? Well then that's okay.