I bought my first copy of Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns” 36 years ago when “graphic novel” was a punchline. This panel hit so hard I never forgot it. Now, I’ve become it. The next panel is also memorable: “Then he straightens up and grins at me like it’s funny. He can’t die.” I could have posted that panel, but spoilers!
PS - I love that Miller gave us the old, slightly stooped and paunchy Batman. He’s huge and intimidating, but no longer lithe and quick. He fights like George Foreman instead of Bruce Lee.
It gives you the sense of how much larger than life the man was (and still is) without stripping away the reality and humanity (“Why wear a target on my chest? Because I can’t armor my head,” he muses to himself as a lucky magnum slug connects.)
I also love the contrasts with Superman. Clark Kent (or Kal El) jumps in the phone booth to become Superman. The Batman is the Batman. Bruce Wayne is the persona he becomes to hide his true self. Supes is the ageless Adonis. Batman is scarred and worn out. His Robin is a walk-on tryout (and -80s gasp- a girl). He gets charged with child endangerment. At one point the Dark Knight is wearing old costumes, still wet, because Alfred and the Bat-Laundry can’t keep up. Long before Marvel’s “Civil War,” “Joker,” or “Dawn of Justice,” Miller portrayed the inherent tension between the ideal of justice, an man who is the poster child of obsessive-compulsive at his best, and the reality of the law.
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I’m just sitting here watching the world burn…
Gen Z: What are you prepared to do about it?
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Truth - always cats in the guns.
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I think they’re in on the joke by 1997. Might as well own it. More Chaco chicken anyone?
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, 1997 - photographed by Mark Seliger for US Magazine.
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Happy birthday Leonard. We miss the coolest Vulcan ever - and a real mensch.
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Only if she has two legs and a pulse there Jim…
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By the power of Greyskull!!
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This is “Trump for President” in Latin.
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