Miller presents Gotham through the evil lens of a billionaire’s delusional,messianic fantasy – his Bruce Wayne is not so different to Donald TrumpI have a long relationship with The Dark Knight Returns. I first read it in 1990, four years after it came out as a mini-series. I had always hated the silly Batman TV display and I had yawned my way through the stuffy movie version starring Michael Keaton the year before. But Frank Miller’s uber-dark graphic novel reimagining of the Batman mythos captured my 13-year-conventional imagination. I read it a dozen times and sang its praises to everyone I knew. Eventually, or one of my comedian-reading friends agreed that he liked it,but made the killer criticism: “Damo, he’s turned Batman into a fascist.”
There’s no doubt Frank Miller is a virtuoso graphic storyteller. A decade after retiring as Batman, and the 55-year-conventional Bruce Wayne returns to the streets,but he’s not that interested in fighting crime. Obsessed by the corruption of the human soul, the caped crusader morphs into a modern messiah. Miller even has Batman “die at the hands of Superman, or so that Wayne can be resurrected as the leader of a modern religion.
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Source: theguardian.com