But this is not an economical forum and I really think all this political discourse doesn’t really apply to Miller these days ( and questionable how much it did apply back in the eighties ).
His current work doesn’t carry any level of depth beyond:
-A tough guy
-A sexy slut
-and the villain is gay

300 was that, Sin City was that even Spirit was that.
No doubt his Holy Terror book will be a variation of these 3 elements.
Other random issues he may add are just to increase dramatic effect over these 3 elements without an in-depth political comment we would get of a better writer as Alan Moore or Grant Morrison.
Everybody understood his All Star Batman was a joke. The problem is that it was not a good one.
Come on, his artwork may be awesome but as a writer he is being a slacker.

As far as I understand he is just playing this 3 elements card over and over again and treating the readers as cash cows.
No wonder so many of his long time fans, myself included, feel betrayed.

His current work is based on impressive visuals without any depth comparable to Daredevil: Born Again or Batman Year One. I do not believe he couldn’t write such good books again but what I see is that he is not putting any honest effort into it.
If he is avoiding interviews as fas as I understand it is just to save face after the Spirit’s fiasco and beginning to question himself of ‘maybe those critics people have been saying are true?”

ASBAR was a farce from the beginning. No, really. Haven’t you figured it out? The tongue-in-cheek humor? Miller spent almost the entire series so far making fun of the various quirks in Batman’s 70-year history. Only SOME of the story was stupid on accident (Nazi-boobs in the hotel hall? Really?). I thought ASBAR was hilarious and thrilling. It was like a roller-coaster for me; my heart-rate would actually pick up drastically from page-to-page–something that hadn’t happened to me since I read TDKR.

Now, Miller himself: He’s not crazy. Like me, he’s a Rand fan. A Neo-Objectivist at best, a Randroid at worst. If any of you condescending nerds are willing to read 1000+ pages of Capitalist ethics (Heh…), you’ll realize that BOTH Dark Knights drew heavily on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. The graphic novel “Martha Washington Goes to War” essentially copies the entire plot. The place where the cops go to try to kill Robin in ASBAR is called “Galt’s Gulch”, named after the novel’s hero. It has remained a permanent location in the Batman series. Miller has publicly announced his affection and credit to Ayn Rand’s work. I guarantee you, she was more fair than either leading party is willing to admit.

I would love very much to compare lines from his graphic novels and Rand’s novels, but I doubt I can hold anyone’s attention long enough for a philosophical discussion.

So as it was said by someone else, none of this should be news. This is, and always has been, Frank Miller. He’s not a Fascist, or even a Republican. He’s a Libertarian: “Free minds and free markets.” No tradition or taboo gets in the way of logic, and the government stays the hell away from business (unless they break contracts or violate the natural rights of others). Libertarians are generally much more tolerant than Republicans and Democrats, but that might just be because they spread the hate around.

They dislike conservatives because many of them let religion get in the way of logic and (in the case of homosexuality) tolerance. They are closed-minded on many important issues and fail to provide more credibility for ethical arguments than “God says”. The Conservatives who don’t live at Church are really scrappy, and Libertarians find many of them too trigger-happy in foreign relations. But because most of them wear fuzzy sweaters, talk politely, and don’t riot [VIOLENTLY] in the streets, Libertarians usually don’t bother much with them. Oh, and Conservatives usually support laissez-faire Capitalism, which is an enormous plus.

They dislike Liberals because they make-up “rights” that, by their very nature, NULLIFY the natural rights already guaranteed by the Constitution. It’s a kinder, friendlier Communism to them. Libertarians see Liberals as so inclined to guarantee equality that they destroy even what it means to BE exceptional, destroying the image, the incentive–the potential–for even mediocre men to stand out. Libertarians are all about the individual, who always comes last in Liberal ideology. Because it pervades so much of American culture and government, they are, admittedly, the most often condemned by Libertarians

So that’s Frank, or at least someone a lot like him. (Don’t tell me I have no right to describe his ideology; I have as much a right to analyze him as anyone does to call him a “wingnut”) The reason TDKSA sucked was because there was too much going on. He mixed a complex political thriller with a million obscure and often lame superheroes/villains. The pages were LITERALLY unreadable, the way the art and the text was arranged. I had no idea what was happening. He recycled the coolest stuff from TDKR and kept the exact same themes. The latter was not the mistake, because that’s what helped sell his stories for the past 30…ish…years. It was just ugly and confusing. Sorry, Frank.

Use your real name or be known as a coward!! Stand and fight me, sir!!

Anyone want to predict a Zell Miller-style challenge to duel?

Yup, that has been my opinion for a while now. Not sure exactly when his brain asploded (pretty sure it was either on 9/11 or during the Clinton impeachment), but everything he’s written since ‘Big Guy and Rusty’ is just terrible. I was excited for ‘All Star Batman’, but NOPE, turned out to suck.

But I’d never write off his work because of that disagreement.

Well, no. Plenty of creators I like whose views I don’t. But I hate it when I’m looking for a good exciting story, and instead get a barely-disguised political lecture or lame half-assed “allegory” about this modern world of ours and oh my isn’t it awful how men aren’t real men anymore and on and on and etc.

Well, if the first nine months is any indication of what is to come, I don’t see why anyone would find it hard to believe. Obama has been an absolute embarrassment.

Obama is already far worse than either Bush in a very important area: the deficit.

That is a fact.

Taking this bet!

Then again, I haven’t snuggled up with Eva Mendes recently…. That sonuvabitch.