![]() ![]() Miller’s book “The Dark Knight Returns” is simultaneously a troubling, violent, adult story and a phenomenon in a world that has become one of the publishing industry’s fastest-growing areas: comic books. What happened is that 29-year-old writer-illustrator Frank Miller has dumped 20 years and lots of darkness on a once-campy superhero. ![]() Holy “Death Wish,” caped crusader! What happened? When one criminal pleads “I got rights,” Batman kicks the guy through a window and snarls, “Sometimes I count (your rights) just to make myself feel crazy.” There’s an injured nobility to him, but he can be vengeful and embittered, and he grins when he hurts muggers. He dons a cape and haunts the night only when he can no longer endure rampaging urban crime. Remember Batman? He was a dashing, upstanding guy in a cowl who chased funny-looking criminals around Gotham City and escaped from cliff-hanging predicaments with the aid of a utility belt chock full of bat-gadgets. ![]()
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