7/6/2023 0 Comments The fixer graphic novelWhen the first great wave of hype broke about comics growing up, Miller was at its centre: visceral where Alan Moore was cerebral iconographic where Moore was iconoclastic. Miller is a big deal in comics, pulp/noir fiction, and super-heroic pop culture generally. Miller-who never did much of an impersonation of a bleeding-heart liberal-has described the book as “not to put too fine a point on it, a piece of propaganda” something that would “really piss people off.”įor those who don’t recognise his name, and are wondering why I’m troubling Prospect with an article about a comic book artist, I should position him. His new work Holy Terror sees a brutal costumed vigilante “engage in postmodern diplomacy” (BLAM! SPUK! SHUK! BLAM! KUNCH! SPUK!) with Islamist fighters in a fantasy New York. But at the end of September the writer and artist Frank Miller had a stab at it. Until now, the “war on terror” hadn’t produced anything so straightforward by way of response from the world of comic books. Its cover bore a classic image of funny-book wish fulfilment: Captain America, Nazi bullets spanging off his shield, planting a spectacular right hook on the chin of Adolf Hitler. In December 1940, Captain America Comics #1 hit the newsstands. A page from Holy Terror, in which al Qaeda sets off a huge explosion in Empire City (a fantasy New York) and threatens further carnage
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