Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 4, 2011 23:51:59 GMT
It arrived this morning courtesy of Amazon.
So, it's The Fixer (BATMAN) against Al'Quaeda as they make a terrorist assault upon Empire (GOTHAM) City.
This has had a long gestation period, and given some of Frank Miller's sensibilities as well as some of his statements folks have been quite worried about this, and how inflammatory it could be.
So is it?
The answer is no. It's in all honesty a very underwhelming piece of work. The art by the way is as fantastic as you would expect. FM is one of my favourite artists hands down, and the way he tells a story is always engaging even if it isn't quite to my tastes. DK2 being a prime example.
It opens with The Fixer chasing a Cat Burglar across the roofs of Empire City. They fight, they embrace - sexual tension ensues and then a nail bomb goes off. The terrorists attack and the Fixer and the Cat Burglar go off to put a stop to it. Meanwhile a razor blade bomb goes off and then an attack on the Statue of Liberty analogue.
The Fixer speaks to his pet policeman Dan Donegal (COMMISSIONER GORDON) and a chap who had mentored him and stops an even bigger attack. There is an irish mercenary helping Al'Quaeda along the way.
The characterisation on all sides is paper thin at best. Far from demonising the terrorists they come across as quite bland and insubstantial. I know in interviews he'd planned this as one of the first in a line of comics harking back to the war-era propaganda of WW2. To a certain extent he succeeds. This is as wafer thin as some of those.
The impact of this was lost entirely when he stopped it being about Batman. Indeed, he has not done enough to create a new character, the Fixer would be as well being Batman.
I can imagine DC got cold feet, hence why Batman was removed, but ultimately I don't see why having read the finished product.
Not the shocker everyone expected. Worth it for the pretty pictures but that's about it.
Andy
So, it's The Fixer (BATMAN) against Al'Quaeda as they make a terrorist assault upon Empire (GOTHAM) City.
This has had a long gestation period, and given some of Frank Miller's sensibilities as well as some of his statements folks have been quite worried about this, and how inflammatory it could be.
So is it?
The answer is no. It's in all honesty a very underwhelming piece of work. The art by the way is as fantastic as you would expect. FM is one of my favourite artists hands down, and the way he tells a story is always engaging even if it isn't quite to my tastes. DK2 being a prime example.
It opens with The Fixer chasing a Cat Burglar across the roofs of Empire City. They fight, they embrace - sexual tension ensues and then a nail bomb goes off. The terrorists attack and the Fixer and the Cat Burglar go off to put a stop to it. Meanwhile a razor blade bomb goes off and then an attack on the Statue of Liberty analogue.
The Fixer speaks to his pet policeman Dan Donegal (COMMISSIONER GORDON) and a chap who had mentored him and stops an even bigger attack. There is an irish mercenary helping Al'Quaeda along the way.
The characterisation on all sides is paper thin at best. Far from demonising the terrorists they come across as quite bland and insubstantial. I know in interviews he'd planned this as one of the first in a line of comics harking back to the war-era propaganda of WW2. To a certain extent he succeeds. This is as wafer thin as some of those.
The impact of this was lost entirely when he stopped it being about Batman. Indeed, he has not done enough to create a new character, the Fixer would be as well being Batman.
I can imagine DC got cold feet, hence why Batman was removed, but ultimately I don't see why having read the finished product.
Not the shocker everyone expected. Worth it for the pretty pictures but that's about it.
Andy
