Boy I'm Glad I didn't spend any money on that.

[chaotic_nipple]

Just finished reading Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Seldom have I been so underwhelmed. It wasn't all _that_ bad, really; Taken in isolation, it would have been a reasonably entertaining read. But as a sequel to the classic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, it fails on every possible level. More than anything else, it reads more like Warren Ellis parodying Kingdom Come. After dropping 'shrooms. And asking a drunken Brian Michael Bendis for dialog assists. It's so very sad when a formerly gifted artist starts to believe their own press and spirals down into inadvertent self-parody. You know the really sad thing? His fanboys will _still_ claim it was the most brilliant creation he ever made. :-P

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[cmorley.livejournal.com]

Yup.

I was pretty disappointed in it as well. I think it could have been one book instead of four.

IN YOUR FACE WHORE

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Re: IN YOUR FACE WHORE

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

What was that Zacky-Whacky? You typed something, but all I read was "Blah blah blah, I'm a dirty slut!" :-P

[capnbadger.livejournal.com]

Underwhelmed? I was flabbergasted. I read DKR same day just to make sure I wasn't high. The layouts are awful, the art muddy, the coloring made me nostalgic for Batman: Digital Justice, the story was incomprehensible.

Really the worst thing I have read in a long time.