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...audience and becomes a monster hit. Around fifteen years later you decide to come out with a three-part sequel that becomes one of the most anticipated new series of the millennium. No, your name is not Lucas, it's Miller. Frank Miller, author of the remarkable 1986 comicbook "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns," has finally completed a three-issue sequel, "The Dark Knight Strikes Back...
...Dark Knight Returns," about an older Bruce Wayne bringing Batman out of retirement, helped change the way America thought about comicbooks. By examining the dark psychology of an American icon, and presenting it in a sharp, funny parody of our over-mediated world, Miller won praise from even the most adamant of non-comics readers. His "grim 'n gritty" take on old Bats created a sub-genre in the comics press, inspiring the movie series as well. But like Lucas' follow-up to the first "Star Wars" series, Miller's return to his past success doesn't recapture the magic...
...oral fixation. Later the comix artists of the 1960s used identical mixes of sex, racial stereotypes and pop culture for artistic and political subversion. But now, having inseminated the medium, porn comix seem spent. With dullness and utilitarianism, they whore themselves out to men who no longer find the Batman and Robin relationship satisfying. Recently, though, the "Dirty Stories" series of books, by putting the intelligence and talent of today's top comix artists toward the pursuit of smut, reinvigorates the tired old stud into something approaching...
...BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES" RETURNS HIM TO THE TUBE FROM...
...BATMAN: YEAR ONE" IS IN THE WORKS AS THE NEXT MOVIE...