Bat/Cat: The Dark Knight Returns

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

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Now, really...

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

Am I really the only s_d-er who likes DKR, without qualification? I'm not talking DKSA which really did suck, nor ASB&R which sucks if it's meant to be taken seriously. I'm talking the original DKR. Along with Year One, it's Miller at his best. Some of the passages are breathtaking:

• The twice-repeated passage about the primordial Bat coming for Bruce, as a boy and again as an old man: "Surely the fiercest survivor, the purest warrior...glaring, hating... Claiming me as your own."


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• Gordon's speech about Pearl Harbor. "It was too big. He was too big."


• Batman being haunted by the Joker even beyond the grave: "Stop...stop laughing."


• Superman's plea to his adopted mother, Earth, to restore him after the nuclear blast.


• Carrie's sheer awe at Batman in command. "It's just his voice. Just him."

And on and on.

C'mon, who's with me here?

Re: Now, really... Am I really the only s_d-er who likes DKR, without qualification?

[batcookies.insanejournal.com]

Re: Now, really... Am I really the only s_d-er who likes DKR, without qualification?

[benicio127.insanejournal.com]

I *died*

Re: Now, really... Am I really the only s_d-er who likes DKR, without qualification?

[heat16.insanejournal.com]

No, I loved. But I'm a huge Miller fan-boy, so my opinion may not be totally unbiased.

Re: Now, really... Am I really the only s_d-er who likes DKR, without qualification?

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

Okay, that's just hilarious. (Never let it be said I'm not a good sport.)

Re: Now, really...

[aegof.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

No, I enjoyed it.

But I also enjoyed Final Crisis, so what do I know.

Re: Now, really...

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

What! Splitter! Heretic!

(I kid, I kid. I didn't even read Final Crisis.)

Re: Now, really...

[saralakali.insanejournal.com]

I can't speak for everyone, but all plot considerations aside, I could never truly like DKR because I find the art hideous. I have issuses with the plot too, but for me, that's what it boils down to. Even this bits I liked, I couldn't really enjoy because, to my eyes, the art is ugly.

I always thought that the story wasn't meant to be liked. That we were meant to take it as a warning, not be entertained by it. This was a comic book attempting to be literature. I leave the speculation on the success (or not) of the attmept to others as well as arguments of the literary merits of the work.

Re: Now, really...

[pyynk.insanejournal.com]

::Raises hand::

Is it perfect? No. Is it a terrific Batman story? Yes.

Re: Now, really...

[metrosessuale.insanejournal.com]

There are things about it I hate. I don't think it's perfect. I wish people hadn't decided that its Elseworld version of Batman needed to be THE Batman. But I keep coming back to this book. And the art is beautiful to me. And those five things you named are some of my very favourite elements. Especially Superman. I keep hearing that people hate Miller's OTT dissing of Superman in this book, but regardless of the man's intentions, Superman/Clark comes off as an interesting, sympathetic character in DKR.