Frank Miller

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Frank Miller is a comic book writer and artist who made it really big in the 80's with his Batman books, "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Batman: Year One". He was praised for helping to return Batman to his darker roots after the campy 60's version, and his version is the general inspiration for most Batman comics today.

He followed these works up with a series of his own creation, "Sin City"; Black & white Noir stories about a corrupt city and its inhabitants. The series has a very strong following among comic readers, and was recently made into a motion picture, with Miller as a co-director. The film is arguably one of the best translations from the comic page to the screen.

Somewhere along the way though, Frank Miller began to slip up. He made "The Dark Knight Strikes Again", the long awaited sequel to DKR. The confusing storyline, terrible characterzation, questionable art and over the top colouring were but some of the reasons that the story was greatly disliked by even his most loyal fans.

Frank Miller is now writing "All-Star Batman", infamous for the goddamn Batman line, which has gotten some mixed reactions from fans.

Miller's style is described as ultra-violent, full of curse words, and mysogynistic (as most female characters are either a prostitute or a stripper). There was a recent episode of Shortpacked, a Webcomic that makes fun of toys and comics, that took an amusing look at Miller's apparent obsession with whores.

Within the last two months, Miller announced that he will write a new Batman story called "Holy Terror Batman!" Which is, in essence, Batman vs. Al Quaeda. Most fans were shocked, confused and saddened by this once great writer's spiral into mediocrity. Some are even beginning to question his state of mind after this.

All the same, we will always have DKR.