Who needs comic-book villains when real ones lurk? Not Batman. (SF Gate)
Comments(2) Frank Miller, who changed the way people looked at comics with his noirish 1980s Batman graphic novel “The Dark Knight Returns” and his “Sin City” series, says he’s started work on a book where the caped crusader will “kick a lot of al Qaeda butt.”
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Miller says the book will be called “Holy Terror, Batman.” While there’s no telling when it will be released — Miller is known for taking his sweet time with his best projects, and he’s in the middle of a different Batman series — it’s clear that the writer of “Sin City” is passionate about tackling the subject.
But having the most popular comic book characters taking on real-life enemies of the state seems to be more of a rarity today. Captain America fought a terrorist group clearly modeled after al Qaeda a few years back. Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors Comics in Concord, said that after a few popular issues, interest waned.
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