Thursday, October 11, 2018
A thought on All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder
All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder, better described as Crazy Steve and Dick Grayson Age Twelve, is a horrible DC comic, and if I could I would strap Frank Miller to a chair like in A Clockwork Orange and see all of Linkara's mockery of him in videos, including the really shitty and racist Holy Terror. Why the fuck did Bob Schreck think that was a good idea? Anyway, a thought occurred to me, I was thinking about how many consider this to be a comic that was inspired by Miller's work on Sin City. However, I would argue that, not exactly. Definitely the near-parodic faux=poetic dialogue, although it existed, IN A MUCH MORE SUBDUED FORM, in soem of his earlier work like the Born Again arc on Daredevil. To cut to the chase, the Batman in ASBAR is not an extension of the Sin City antiheroes, but sort of more like a villain in them. Hell, Marv in Sin City loves getting in, extremely violent fights, but he's not held as a paragon, nor is he averse to gruesome deaths like the Batman in this, but he frankly seems to care more about people, such as one short story where he saves a little girl from sexual slavery, r the thing with the college boys burning a wino before he takes them out... not helping my case here. Although the Miller Batman does beat and starve Dick Grayson who he kidnaps, and burns a bunch of goons to death with bleach and thermite before making out with Irish ninja Black Canary. In the middle of the dock full of burning corpses. Look, I have been on antibiotics and not eating much, and a bad skin cyst that burst and keeps bleeding and leaking pus so it's hard to sleep, cut me a little slack.
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