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Climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg recently appeared in DC Comics and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child. Thunberg appears at the very end of the book as Carrie Kelley as Batwoman has assembled a group of protestors to take on Darkseid. Thunberg is one of the protestors. Darkseid describes the protestors: “Look at them…fists clenched in righteous rage…Eyes glistening with hope and determination…” He adds, “…Yes. They will serve me well…once they are turned.” Not only does the book feature Greta Thunberg, but it also takes issue with President Donald Trump and his supporters. The book shows crazed...

The Batman that many people know (and love) today was spawned not in the 1930s, when the Caped Crusader first appeared in comic books – but rather in the 1980s, under the revisionary design of writer/artist Frank Miller, creator of Sin City and 300. Miller’s seminal Batman story arcs - Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns – have directly influenced every iteration of the superhero thereafter, including Chris Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises (respectively). In short, it was Miller who put the “dark” into The Dark Knight.DC Universe has already paid homage to Miller’s work with a Batman: Year One animated film, but with The Dark Knight Returns,...

Frank Miller Doesn't Think Much of Occupy Wall Street Frank Miller, the legenday comic artist behind Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns unloaded on the Wall Street protesters in a recent blog post, and plenty of his fans are firing back. First, the blog post. In a long statement posted on his website, titled "Anarchy," Miller says he has decided to say what others are "too damn polite" to say: The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of...

Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense: The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. “Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is...

Oh how your humble correspondent has yearned for his own Marshall McLuhan moment. You might remember that scene from the movie "Annie Hall" when some pompous blowhard on a theater line pontificated about the thoughts of the author of "the medium is the message." An irritated Woody Allen then pulled out McLuhan himself to harshly rebuke the guy. Well, now I get that opportunity with comics  artist and writer Frank Miller severely criticizing the Occupy Wall Street protests. First let us look at Stephen Kelly of the UK Guardian speculating that Batman could become a hero for the OWS movement:

WOW! The DUmmies are in a rage because comix artist and writer, Frank Miller, is now slamming the OWS protests. And it is not just polite criticisms as you can see HERE. It is a full out body slam with a harsh slap in the face. It should be big news but I have seen almost nothing about this in the mainstream media, or anywhere else, except for this crybaby THREAD in protest from the DUmmies, "Has Frank Miller always been this much of an asshole?" So let us now watch the DUmmies scream in Bloody Bolshevik Red in...

I've blogged previously about graphic novelist/illustrator Frank Miller's renegade commentary on patriotism and al Qaeda's jihad. The L.A. Times has a new profile of Miller today with news of his latest projects--and more fodder that will set the 9/10 Hollyweirdos' teeth on edge: MUCH has been made of Miller's politics in the wake of "300." The deliriously violent and stylized sword film is based on a Spartan battle in 480 B.C., and although Miller wrote and drew the story for Dark Horse comics a decade ago, in film form it was received by many as a grotesque parody of the...

The Battle of Thermopylae was of course written by the classical Greek author, Herodotus, who lived in the Persian city of Halicarnassus. His book, 'The Histories' became part of Western folklore only recently. It was not until about 1850 that America embraced Herodotus as the leading authority on Persian history. Before 1850, however, the West had a very favorable impression of the Persian Empire. That's because the West's main source for Persian history was the Bible and the 'Cyropaedia,' written by another Greek author named Xenophon. But the Cyropaedia glorified the monarchy of Cyrus The Great, and in the wake...

I do not know whose bright idea it was to use real names in a historical fantasy instead of just calling it fiction. But is there any difference between the makers of this movie and Ahmadinejad? They are both blind to the truth. Brainwashing is wrong whether done by communists, Islamo-Fascists, or Warner Brothers. The intentions may be different, but the results are the same. Obscuring history and slandering a great civilization is an undeniable sin, and an intolerable offense by any standard. By many historical accounts contrary to his depiction in “300”, Xerxes was a wise man, a tolerant...

"Iran givs '300' a thumbs down." cries one headline. "Iranians outraged over hit movie", cries another. What are they outraged over? The muscle bound Spartans in loin clothes? The fact that Leonides wife wasn't wearing a chador? No, it is because they see it as a criticism of their regieme, because it portrays the murderous tyrant Xerxes as an effeminite murderous tyrant. Well, the umbrella carrying tyrant wasn't exactly an Idaho suvivalist, and his love of the easy life was one of the reasons he was assasinated The Mullahs try to keep their land pure, free of such dangerous anti...

bet this is what the Mullahs don't like. Click on link

I just went to see 300 & it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The movie is about honor, sacrifice, freedom, patriotism, etc. I think the generation of Americans who fought the Japanese & Germans in WW II would have tears of nationalism running down their checks after watching this masterpiece. As for the blood, gore & heads rolling, well that’s what fighting a war all is about. This movie is not for the modern day hedonism American who would find more in common with the Persian Emporer, Xerxes then the Spartans who saved Western Democratic ( In its infancy, like Iraq today) from...

Only after watching the epic movie "300"--about free men of the West willing to die at Thermopylae rather than kneel to an Eastern king--did I read the reviews. I'm conflicted about the film, but the reviews were quite entertaining. Especially the reviews that were so turgid with praise, focusing on the rippling chests and rippling abdomens of the near-naked Spartan warriors, the slo-mo blood globules and the thrusting, thrusting, thrusting of the spears. OK, OK, I get it. Warnography is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Some ripped the movie, including one East Coast reviewer...

I just saw 300 and I could see why the libs would be up in arms over it. From quips such as "freedom is not free" and them "boy loving Athenians(in a derogatory term)", you could also see that this was set as a clash of civilizations, freedom versus slavery. The movie overall is very gory and is not for the feint of heart but it is well worth your time if you like Frank Miller's work and you want to see history retold, although not 100% accurate.

What's your favourite movie? Someday soon, you may ask a new acquaintance that question, and just maybe -- because it takes all kinds -- your new friend will reply, "My favourite movie is 300." If this happens, back away slowly. Your new friend probably kills cats for fun. Worse -- your new friend may be George W. Bush. Director Zack Snyder's new dramatization of the epic Spartan stand at Thermopylae will probably go down real well at the White House, and wherever disturbed young people massacre hundreds in violent video games. Others should exercise discretion. This is a historical epic,...

The backover of the original 300 graphic novel by Frank Miller has the following summary: --- The army of Prrsia - a force so vast it shakes the earth with its march -- is posied to crush Greeze, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of mysticism and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction is a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriers. But these warriors are more than men...they are Spartans. ----- Allegory for the War on Terror? No wonder liberal critics hate the movie adaption...and just about everyone else is flocking to...

Movie Rating: (R) | Grade: B- The abs are steel, the pecs titanium and the glutes bronze, and if they gave Academy Awards for cutting a fine figure of a near-naked man, Gerard Butler’s King Leonidas would win pants-down. “300,” an adaptation of Frank Miller’s (“Sin City”) critically acclaimed 1999 graphic novel directed by Zack Snyder (“Dawn of the Dead”), is a fan-boy beefcake lollapalooza. A retelling of the Greek story of the 300 Spartans who held off a vast Persian army at a pass in Thermopylae known as the Hot Gates in 480 B.C., the film is remarkably faithful...

Its the spartans fighting for freedom and democracy vs the persian empire.

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Great interview. Must listen! http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24146_Batman_Artist_No_Moonbat&only