Instinctually when reading Batman you know when the work is off the mark, and when it’s on the mark. The Batman myth has an interesting construct – he was created by a single individual but through time a broader group (writers, artists, fans) have regulated his makeup. No definitive rules are written anywhere, but there is a core story that has a definitive structure that the collective imagination has moulded throughout the years. Miller’s story stays within the basic superhero parameters, but his shift in tone with the character is unique and has had a deep impact for the medium of action adventure comics.
The impact of it all is so strong it’s now impossible to avoid, and even harder to deviate from when dealing with the character.
In those two books he’s able to repackage the origin story and also gives the character an end point. Once with The Dark Knight Returns in 1986, and again the following year with Batman Year One. – Frank MillerĬontext: There is only one really good Batman story, and Frank Miller found a way to tell it twice. From that sprung everything about the story”. And So I figured Batman’s gotta be older than me. “ I got a chance to work on Batman, I was 29 years old at the time and dreading the nightmare of turning 30.
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