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Dark Knight Returns

quinine92001

13:13 / 23.06.01

Just finished reading Dark Knight Returns. Who doesn't want to be Bruce Wayne? A mere Human besting the tool of a Krypton/Earth! Favorite line: " there are seven working defenses from this position-three of them disarm with minimal contact-three kill and the other---hurts!"

Our Lady of The Two Towers

19:51 / 24.06.01

"I just want you to remember, my hands wrapped around your throat..." or words to that effect.

BAFM

20:13 / 24.06.01

Seeing Supes all wizened and corpse-like gave a me a warm glow all over...

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

20:36 / 24.06.01

For me the best moment is STILL when Batman takes his hands off the punks eyes and enjoys the scream he makes.

Gives me warm fuzzzies...

So, anyone like me and worried that the sequel will suck wet farts from dead gophers?

02:47 / 25.06.01

No way. It's going to rock. It'll be different from the first, and won't be as good, but for what it is, it'll be awesome. Frank Miller is still totally on his game.
300 baby.

02:49 / 25.06.01

Oh yeah.
The part when he has the mutant leader in his sights and could finish him off from the Batmobile, but decides fuck it, time to kick ass.

[ 25-06-2001: Message edited by: zerone ]

moriarty

03:07 / 25.06.01

Has anyone else seen the episode of the Animated Batman that had the Dark Knight sequence? They showed the fight with the Mutant Leader. Grisly.

Mr Tricks

05:07 / 25.06.01

No, I rememeber reading about it . . .but never caught it on tv.

sleazenation

07:00 / 25.06.01

Outside of 300 (the relative merits of which can be discussed elsewhere) Frank miller has been coasting the last 10 years producing inferior copies of his own pervious work.

Frank, please, try something different.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

07:00 / 25.06.01

"This isn't a mudhole...this is an operating table. And I'm the surgeon." <followed by large crack of twisted knee>

Can't wait for the sequel.

tSuibhne

14:08 / 25.06.01

Interesting, I just reread this this weekend. When is the sequel coming out?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

16:45 / 25.06.01

Ok, I'm a bit behind on comics news, so excuse my ignorance...

But the sequel? Is it about the bat-kiddies?

That always worried me slightly... I dunno.......

z3r0

17:08 / 25.06.01

Is tehre going to be a sequel?
WOW

My favorite lines:
JOKER: "Alas, I'm going to kill everyone in this theater tonight" (or something like this)
BATMAN TO SUPS: "It's past time for you to learn what it is to be a man" (or something like this)
BATMAN TO JOKER: "I always knew there was nothing wrong with you that I couldn't fix with my hands" (or something like this)

invisible_al

17:34 / 25.06.01

quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:
Outside of 300 (the relative merits of which can be discussed elsewhere) Frank miller has been coasting the last 10 years producing inferior copies of his own pervious work.

This I can agree with having loved Give Me Liberty to small pieces, the other two series bar the one shot 'happy birthday' issue have just been downhill all the way.

Yeah they might look a bit nicer but the plots have been wank of the highest order.
Far too touchy feely compared to the first book.

Happy Birthday Martha Washington on the other hand was great had the new art and the feel of the old books perfect. Short stories, the captain america one was my favourite.

Leaves me a bit worried about any sequels to Dark Knight.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:54 / 25.06.01

Interestingly, a slightly-damaged leather-bound copy of The Dark Knight Returns was the first "real" comic I ever got. When I was about 13 or something - saw it on the chuck-outs table of Mark One Comics in Auckland and picked it up. That I liked, but I haven't been able to bring myself to read Sin City - it just looks too... overtly crumbly... for my tastes. Not quite as subtle as DNR. What Miller can people recommend? Or, as sleaze infers, has he gone down the crapper?

Johnny Reb

01:16 / 26.06.01

You can't go wrong with Batman: Year One or most of Miller's Daredevil work (especially the Born Again storyline). Some of the Sin City stuff is okay, but I'd completely skip Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, which I thought was disappointing except for the art which is rad.

Rialto

08:14 / 26.06.01

Daredevil: Born Again is held by many including Time Please to be the best of the 1980s grim-superhero-deconstruction works. And just one of the best self-contained storylines ever in the genre. Better than DKR. Marvel are re-releasing the trade paperback in September, I believe.

Axel Lambert

11:31 / 26.06.01

Fave quote: It ends here, Joker.

mario94606

04:11 / 12.02.04

WHEN FRANK MILLER WAS DONE REVEMPING DAREDEVIL FOR MARVE HE MOVED ON TO BATMAN AND DROVE A SERIOUS WEDGE BETWEEN WHAT WAS PREVOIUSLY A FRIENSHIP BETWEEN THE DARK KNIGHT AND THE MAN OF STEEL SOMETHING THAT SEEMED TO FIT SO WELL THAT NO OTHER WRITERS HAVE TRIED TO CHANGE THAT. ITS DARK, GRITTY, GRIMEY. "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS'' SHOULD BE IN EVERYONES COMIC LIBRARY RIGHT NEXT TO "THE WATCHMEN". IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, GO GET IT.

I SAW THE BATMAN ANIMATED SERIES WITHE THE DARK KNIGHT SEQUENCE AND THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT SEQUENCE, A LITTLE TOO SHORT, BUT THA JUST MAKES ME HOPE THA ONE DAY THEY WILL ANIMATE THE ENTIRE "DARK KNIGHT RETURNS" SERIES. I WOULD BE GREAT TO FOR THOSE THAT HAVE NEVER READ BATMAN AND FOR DEVOTED FANS OF THE SERIES. HOPE. HOPE. HOPE. (BETTER THAN RUSTY , THATS FOR SURE)

mario94606

04:20 / 12.02.04

IT WOULD DEFINETLY MAKE A GREAT BATMAN ANIMATED MOVIE. JUST AS LONG AS IT DOSEN'T GET DILUTED,DUMB-DOWN, OR CLEANSED FOR MASS CONSUMPTION. NEED MORE PROOF. RENT AKIRA, NINJA SCROOL, VAMPIRE HUNTER D, GIANT ROBO AND CRYING FREEMAN.

LDones

05:51 / 12.02.04

Wow. Just wow.

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