Post #1562425
2026-01-13 23:03 UTC
@BillySmith @ridetheory Kind of like when Frank Miller had a rant against the Occupy Wall Street movement (remember that?) and I went back to Batman: the Dark Knight Returns and saw the right-wing jabs at «leftist» stereotypes I had glossed over the first times I read it. The stoner parents, the do-gooder psychiatrist, and so on.
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@celeduc@mastodon.social 2026-01-14 11:31
@toriver @BillySmith @ridetheory Frank Miller, the Charles Bukowski of comics
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@jherazob@mastodon.ie 2026-01-14 12:20
@toriver @BillySmith @ridetheory I... seem to have not heard any of this and am now needing to reread Dark Knight Returns...
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@tanepiper@tane.codes 2026-01-15 06:36
@toriver @BillySmith @ridetheory not defending the author - but that might be the truest depiction of Batman, if you lean into Bruce Wayne is upholding justice for his own social class
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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-01-20 14:53
@toriver @BillySmith @ridetheory Yeah. Miller was always a right-wing Freak. Like, capital-F Freak. He had a good comic, early on (Ronin), but he let his own self through more and more, and it was toxic.