![]() ![]() Miller is often credited with/accused of turning mainstream American comics ''darker,'' a charge that mostly hails from The Dark Knight Returns' bleak take on the Caped Crusader. And in the most memorable Sin City story, the psychotically heroic Marv sets out to avenge a dead woman?and, in his semi-deluded head, seems to be talking to said dead woman the entire time. Dark Knight Returns gave the older Bruce Wayne a running inner monologue that's half chiseled-pulp and half ambient koans, like a mixture of Phillip Marlowe and Terrence Malick. ''Born Again'' floats freely through the perspectives of the malevolent Kingpin and downward-spiraling Matt Murdock. And what unifies all of them is Miller's authorial voice, which often mixes together first-person narration with a more omniscient second- or third-person perspective, creating a dreamlike closeness to the story's characters. Daredevil's ''Born Again,'' the double-Bat-punch of The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, early Sin City: These are furious acid-pulp masterpieces. The first thing to remember about Frank Miller is that he is the man behind a few of the greatest stories in the history of the comic book medium. ![]()
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