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harleykwin said:
Um, I think you might be confused... *grin*

Seriously, after reading DKSA - and the luke warm reception that ASBR seems to be getting, you kinda haveta wonder what happened to the man who wrote Y:1, DKR and Sin City...



Not to mention Daredevil: Born Again...and part of The Friday Review's...uh, review for said story makes it even more ironic:

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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN can be considered one of the cornerstones of what might be termed the Class Of 1986 - a group of books that changed the face of American comics from that point on. (Think of MAUS, WATCHMEN, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, PUNISHER: CIRCLE OF BLOOD, SQUADRON SUPREME and THE SHADOW: BLOOD AND JUDGEMENT.) It helped kick-start the 'grim and gritty' trend, and marked a shift away from the traditional Marvel manner of storytelling initiated by Lee, Kirby, Ditko, et al.



The review G-Man quoted cited part of the problem, at least in my eyes:

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It’s all straight from the SIN CITY school of beating the reader over the head with a hardboiled cadence...I can’t help but feel but Miller’s been around this same block so many times he’s worn a groove into the road...



The other part is...well, I'll get into that another day. That's a whole other rant I'll save for a DKSA thread.

"I'm the goddamn BATMAN." Everytime I read that, I don't know wheter to wince or ask some "punk" if he feels "lucky."

"Boasting is not courage. He who boasts much cannot do much. Much gesticulation does not prove courage." "Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Aristotle "Honor is like a steep island without a shore: one cannot return once one is outside." Nicholas Bouleau