Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Grant Morrison on Frank Miller
Morrison calls Miller on some of his bullshit in this interview with Newsarama. Here are the good bits:
All in good humor, I'm sure, but pleasant thoughts to this Miller-dissing mind.
Morrison calls Miller on some of his bullshit in this interview with Newsarama. Here are the good bits:
while I won't pretend we all live on Sunnybrook Farm, I don't think its appropriate - particularly in trying times - to present our fictional heroes as unsmiling vengeance machines. I'd rather Batman embodied the best that secular humanism has to offer - a sour-faced, sexually-repressed, humorless, uptight, angry, and all-round grim 'n' gritty Batman would be more likely to join the Taliban surely?
And while we're on that subject...Batman vs. Al Qaeda! It might as well be Bin Laden vs. King Kong! Or how about the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind up against a hungry Hannibal Lecter! For all the good it's likely to do. Cheering on a fictional character as he beats up fictionalized terrorists seems like a decadent indulgence when real terrorists are killing real people in the real world. I'd be so much more impressed if Frank Miller gave up all this graphic novel nonsense, joined the Army and, with a howl of undying hate, rushed headlong onto the front lines with the young soldiers who are actually risking life and limb 'vs' Al Qaeda.
All in good humor, I'm sure, but pleasant thoughts to this Miller-dissing mind.
