Frank Miller was recently interviewed at the New York Comic-Con and had this to say about "Holy Terror, Batman!"
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...ecently announced "Holy Terror Batman!," to capture the zeitgeist of an age so accurately in so many different time periods.
"Mostly from reading newspapers and the internet." Miller said. The tradition of having comics reflect the times they live has fallen off since the
days of Frederic Wertham's near industry killing "Seduction of the Innocent," but it was commonplace in the forties when characters like Superman
and Captain America routinely fought real world evils like Hitler and Mussolini. By turning away from this, by becoming apolitical, superheroes have
rendered themselves irrelevant.
But according to Miller, they don't have to be. Inspired by artists like R.Crumb, Miller has aspired to have his stories reflect his viewpoint of the
world, showing the audience the world as he sees it. Superheroes should interact with the real world.
"Superheroes are folk heroes," said Miller, "and how can folk heroes not interact with folk?"
Miller fans should defiantly read the whole thing
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