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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Extra! Extra! Brainy liberal full of worries!
"No matter what he does, it's interesting. Even if it's a train wreck, people will check it out."
-Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in The San Francisco Chronicle's article on Holy Terror, Batman!
I was at the Frank Miller panel at WonderCon and when I heard him talk about the book I had conflicted feelings, which is how I usually feel about Miller's work these days. I'm excited to see him do a new Batman project all by himself, especially since he says this is the best artwork he's done of his career. I like the passion that he displayed about this book.
But I just can't hang with the mentality behind the book. This is probably my San Francisco/college student liberalism taking a hold on me but Miller equating the War on Terrorism to World War II is just ridiculous. It reminds me too much of the "rah-rah" sentiment we had right after 9/11 when so many people were duped in Bush's "good guy/bad guy" dichotomy. That's a view on the world that seems to inspire Miller but I think it leads to ignorance in people.
The comics that came out at the time were especially embarrassing. Marvel had Captain America and the X-Men fighting Arab terrorists in storylines that I don't think anyone wants to revisit. And we all remember Civilian Justice? I'm sure Miller's book will be better on a technical level than all of those comics but I'm not convinced the ideas behind it will be any deeper.
I suppose the only way to know is to wait until the book comes out instead of being a whiny sedentary, indoors man, liberal elite Jew-bag (well, half-Jew-bag) who posts on a blog. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go read Howard Chaykin's The Challengers of the Unknown Kick Fox News's Ass because there's nothing I love better than having my own opinions fed back to me. Yummy.
Check out that Chronicle article, though. There are some good quotes from Larry Gonick, he of the Cartoon History of... series.
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