The Dark Knight Strikes Again
January 24th, 2002I sped through the pages with vigor, finally getting a chance to read Frank Miller’s follow-up to the The Dark Knight Returns, a veritable comic book breakthrough of mega proportions, but that’s putting it too mildly. The irony of the storyline in the new offering, as it casts a shadow into our present political climate, is both highly palatable and categorically eerie, especially when you consider that it was authored before the events of September 11. Miller, ever the one to turn comics into politics, portrays a world similar to the one he started fifteen years ago—a world of aging super-heroes, themselves symbols of power and omnipotence, who may or may not be unwittingly acting as contributing agents of chaos. It’s too much to get into without spoiling. However, I will say that I wished this first volume, which appears to be a larger setup for the second, breathed with a little more air. In other words, I’d like to savor it just a little bit longer next time. And I’m sure that I will. After all, he’s just getting the freakin’ suit on.