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Originally Posted by MicShazam
My dislike of Frank Miller is the primary reason why I still haven't read his famous Batman material. It's been praised like few other comics ever have. I don't expect it to be 100% deserved. I know I can find it at the library. They've got a great comics section.
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Oh yeah no I wouldn't recommend reading
The Dark Night Returns if you have a crippling issue with Frank Miller.
The Dark Knight Returns is ****ing weird as a work by Frank Miller. It lampoons what I call "lily livered liberalism" in a way that feels exactly like Ayn Rand, but
Year One doesn't really have that going on. It's got really just the few pages that are questionable (and it's very questionable, calling out leather-bound gay dudes in a park as if they're rapists and also associating hookers with women out to **** over men). But other than that I can't recommend it enough. It's amazing and not at all what Frank Miller's worst tendencies would scare you off of.
But if you just don't want Frank Miller (I understand, he's a ****) then have this. Grant Morrison is god and not problematic.
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is both visually the most ****ed up and fascinating Batman comic ever but also one of the most fascinatingly written Batman comics. It even has the Joker as one of the most bizarrely written villains in comics without even having him being a central villain. OMG it's a good comic. Like Batman on acid.
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