King Kong! Or how about the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind up against a hungry Hannibal Lecter! For all the good it’s likely to do. Al Qaeda! It might as well be Bin Laden vs. Here’s one way to tell if your Batman-comic idea is unfounded: Grant Morrison says it’s crazy.īatman vs.
So you’ve got to do what you can to help your country survive. Just like you have to fight to protect your friends and family, and you count on them to watch your own back. Ben Franklin said it: If we don’t all hang together, we all hang separately. I believe patriotism is central to a nation’s survival. Patriotism, I now believe, isn’t some sentimental, old conceit. All of a sudden I realize what my parents were talking about all those years. Miller announced that he was working on a comic where Batman fights off an Al-Qaeda attack on Gotham city back in 2006, leaving many wondering “But Frank, where will you put the whores?” Lets take a look at how he has described his inspiration.įor the first time in my life, I know how it feels to face an existential menace.
When he acknowledged that “trying to shoehorn Batman into Afghanistan” was more Miller’s speed, Miller replied “No, I’m not doing that anymore.” This week, at the annual New York Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival, Frank Miller took part in a panel on the “art of superheroes,” where he grumpily confirmed that he is no longer making his 122 page “Batman Fights Al-Qaeda” opus.įellow panelist Kyle Baker mentioned that he prefers to keep politics out of his superhero comics, leaving such heady subjects as religious extremism and the war on terror to his self published work.
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