This … this will not terminate well . DC comics has just announced that Frank Miller , one of comics ’ expectant creators who has since devolved into one of the funnies ’ universe ’s weird crazy uncle , is create a third volume in the saga he began with The Dark Knight Returns , to be titled The Dark Knight : The Master Race .
This … this can not possibly go well . Even if you push aside the fact that Miller wrote All - Star Batman , in which Batman had sexual practice with Black Canary on a foul pier , called Robin “ retarded ” and had Wonder Woman mention to human being as “ sperm banks ” — or his Holy Terror comedian , in which a faux - Batman pulse and torture countless Islamic extremists , The Dark Knight Strikes Again was … really , really not good . See the panel up top ? That ’s from TDKSA . I can best tote up it up by this real draftsmanship that Miller did of Wonder Woman ’s costa cage :
As Wonder Woman ’s crushed , shattered body is to a regular rib cage , so was Strikes Again to The Dark Knight Returns .
The good news is that Brian Azzarello will on the face of it be co - writing with Miller , presumably in hopes of heading off the horrifying shitstorm of ethnical insensitivity that is almost 100 % sealed to follow . But for god ’s saki , it ’s call The Master Race . I feel like the probability of Frank Miller being … well , being Frank Miller are pretty goddamn in high spirits .
The fact that this affair is subtitle The Master Race should be filling DC executives with scurvy fear . I think , it ’s no great mystery what DC is thinking — this is the 30th anniversary of The Dark Knight Returns , and despite the fact Strikes Again was an incomprehensible mess it made money — but man . This will work nothing but cataclysm .
Here ’s the prescribed press release . All the good clobber is in - between the lines :
SUPERSTAR WRITER / ARTIST FRANK MILLER
RETURNS TO BATMAN !
“ THE DARK KNIGHT III : THE MASTER RACE ”
fill out Trilogy in Legendary “ Dark Knight ” Saga
BURBANK , Calif. ( Friday , April 24 , 2015 ) – DC Entertainment foretell today that bestselling , iconic Batman writer and creative person Frank Miller will write the epic conclusion of the celebrate THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS saga .
The “ THE DARK KNIGHT III : THE MASTER RACE ” is the subsequence to Miller ’s 1986 classic THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS – heralded by TIME Magazine as one of the 10 nifty vivid novels of all clip – and its 2001 - 2002 follow - up serial BATMAN : THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN .
Miller will be joined by acclaimed writer Brian Azzarello ( 100 BULLETS , JOKER , and WONDER WOMAN ) on the eight - issue comic book periodical , to be published twice a calendar month under the DC Comics embossment . brand the 30th day of remembrance of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS original series , this periodic is slate for publication start out in belated Fall 2015 .
“ Batman remains my favorite comic book hero and a sequel to Dark Knight is going to be daunting , ” pronounce Miller , “ but we ’ll do our estimable . ”
“ We are thrilled to have Frank back home at DC writing Batman , ” agree to Dan DiDio and Jim Lee , Co - Publishers for DC Entertainment . “ The story he and Brian have craft is an astounding and rejoicing finish to this seminal consistency of work which influenced and shaped generation of readers and Maker alike . ”
agree to Azzarello , “ It ’s been an amazing experience join forces with Frank these past six months . I think we have an epic account that these characters truly merit . ”
Artists for the project have yet to be announced .
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