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Lord of the Flies: Community college edition
I concur that his comics have sailed superior to the squalous (on waterskis!)
No argument, The Spirit was replete with suckiosity. Those of its problems that weren't directorial were screenwriterly. Better comic book adaptations have been made by assholes who didn't know they were adapting a comic.
But THE WORST? Obviously, my friend, you have not seen the offense to the senses that is the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Turning Batman into Dirty Harry with a cape and ripping off film noir clichés doesn't translate into nuanced, intelligent political commentary, as it turns out.
Like in 1968...when parts of the Estblishment started coming out in favor of the counter culture...it was because they thought they might win.
But once rifles beat flowers...see you later.
No, I think I got them right, if you mean me. Glancing over the description of Miller's graphic novel, I thought it sounded like he was rewriting Moore's work, only instead of portraying the government as oppressive and intolerant, as Moore does, Miller portrays the authorities as the good guys.
The Oakland police union has called for the protesters to leave after a man was shot to death near their protest site on Thursday.
The Oakland Police Officers Association, in an open letter to the protesters on Friday, said officers sympathized with their movement but that the city was in a "state of emergency" and asked them to leave.
"You have sent the world a strong message; now it is time to go home. Your leaving today, peacefully, of your own free will, on the 30th day, will send a message to Oakland that you care about our citizens and respect our city," the union said.
Alan Moore needs to consult his dark gods and cast a shut the ever loving fuck up curse on Frank Miller.
My side is right, your side is wrong, etc.
Which reminds me why has Occupy Seattle stopped posting their GA minutes after all the talk about drugs, drinking and violence at SCCC were posted?
But, hell, DKSA? Shit. The fuck is Frank Miller allowed to communicate with people? Shouldn't he be in a retirement home, shitting his diapers, drooling, and yelling at kids to get off his lawn?
How does your foot taste? If a teabagger had raped someone at one of their rallies would you be so generous to disassociate the group's politics from its actions?
Btw add assault with a broken bottle (Occupy Seattle!), OD's (Occupy Portland!), guns and shooting (Occupy Vermont!) to the ever growing list at these Lord of the flies camps.
Occupy is an actual grass-roots uprising, not organized, not funded, not orchestrated for positive media impact. It's open-ended and ongoing and anyone can wander into it.
If the media wants to find things to criticize about it, it's not too hard, and they DO want to find things to criticize.
And there you have it. The Establishment speaks, using their usual apparatus.
Wha? Frank Miller is worried about vegan liberal... rapists?
This is from the guy who can't draw or write anything that doesn't include a woman being raped and murdered?
Okayeeee, Frank. Now go back inside. Mattlock and Judge Judy will be on in a little bit. I'm making those scones you like. Now be good lad and and come back inside and put your sweater on. You know how you scare the nieghborhood dogs when yell on the porch like that.
The large Teabagger rallies were financed. All the thousands of small ones around the nation that started the movement, weren't. Most the thousands of people who organized, started mailing lists, got out the vote for the tea baggers were volunteers. Saying they were simply 'built by the Koch brothers and Fox' is as intellectually vacuous and lazy as right wingers saying Soros and Acorn financed Obama's win and are financing the Occupy movements. If you don't understand your enemy you are doomed to failure.
Plus, the tea baggers turned their movement into victory at the polls. Occupy is just filling jails cells and turning into a Lord of the Flies nightmare of murders, rapes, assaults, drugs and boozing. Sorry, but the 99% does not accept socialism and anarchism as their future. You will not win squat at the polls. SO keep on twinkling your fingers, your movement will be over by Xmas; the 99% are fed up and our parks will soon be returned to us.
It's a fucking punchline. Enjoy sleeping in the cold, shitting in a bucket and sleeping with one eye open in case you crack head/smackheaf tent mate wants your shit at 2am.
Plus one sensible person tipped off the police to rocksand sticks protesters were collecting to attack police with when the lawfully clear the park of illegal tents. Gonna be fun watching anarchists getting their heads smacked in Portland tonight. Thank you PPD!
And he used to write Batman? Hurm.
And speaking of things in my mouth, you're putting words in there I've never spoken. Now I've certainly pointed out that the Teabaggers liked to display firearms and imply they'll violently overthrow the government if they don't get what they want, but that is political.
Something like the simple logic that 99% of the population isn't addicted to heroin? No, probably you don't understand what the 99% is: It's the 99% of the population that is being disenfranchised in favor of non-human corporate entities and a very small minority.
Of course most junkies are of the 99%. The 1% does cocaine and recreational prescriptions and they OD in their bathtubs or outside of clubs in NY, London, LA, etc...
But keep trying to claim this just 'mirrors society', if only for shits and giggles.
The one spot you nail is "9/11 broke what's left of Frank Miller's brain". Soooo true. DK2 wasn't half of what it should've been, and much behind-the-back whispers in the industry have said that the last half of DK2 was supposed to've been a much different story altogether.
I suppose we should sorta pity a man like Frank who's been charged with/took on being a Mythkeeper- he knows and re-tells the big hero stories of our last/current century. These heroes = Bigger than life bulletproof americans, mainly. When our landscape and patriotism took a hit like 9/11, it warped the quasi reality he'd been weaving for decades (not to mention the too eerie foretelling his art made in DK1 when the nuke/EMP knocked planes out of the sky).
His Cap'n America, with 2 holes in the supposedly indestructable shield, says a few more than the usual thousand words: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrdf6u…
oh yeah and @4 you suck and fail at comic trivia. For starters: Stop typing while staring at yourself in your troll mirror. Next: Alan Moore =/= Frank Miller, brainless shitcock
And he used to write Batman? Hurm."
Maybe he just got off on the violence.
I have to wonder, though, Paul. You say he "hasn't made a good comic book since 1992". This means you think Hard Boiled and Robo-Cop versus Terminator were good, but have nothing but disdain for the Sin City books, the majority of his Martha Washington tales, and The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. Martha probably represents the best prose and narrative of his career. There are whole books of the Sin City set which are brilliant as comics (whatever you might think of their intentionally ridiculous violence). And The Big is just fun. You're weird, Paul.