The Most Hated Batman Comic

at this point everyone realized that frank miller lost his mind.

More hated than All Star Batman?

A parody that isn't easily understood as one is obviously a failure. That said, just because something is a failure doesn't mean it has no value.

The irony of the Twin Towers thing is that in response to 9/11, Miller wrote a story called “Batman: Holy Terror” where Batman would get revenge on Muslims for doing 9/11, which was his revenge fantasy for the event. A story he’s since denounced entirely not only cause it is one of the worst stories ever, but because Miller said he does not have the same mindset he did in 2009.

Miller was battling his own mental health while being disgusted with the mainstream industry at the time. Miller's best work has always been when he's had a good editor who can help him with dialog. Now someone please explain the Master Race lol! Again superb video!

The ideas of the twin towers getting destroyed was popular in fiction for decades before it happened. There were tv episodes where the towers were getting attacked and some involved planes. There was even a comic where Twoface flips his coin to decide whether or not to destroy the twin towers. A lot of writers had this weird idea of the towers getting destroyed.

Bro. This is the most complete analysis I've seen to this pice of work. It's great that you went further and read complementary material in order to comprehend what was going on during the story. Pure respect for you my man. You are still and FOREVER be THE Batman channel on Youtube. God bless you and I hope you become popular/mainstream one day.

If you think about it, Frank Miller's Batman is a tragic irony in itself. Why? Well, because both THE DARK KNIGHT and BATMAN: YEAR ONE are milestones in Batman's publication history. But in the 21st century, Miller got nuts and inserted his own traumas into his works. Can't blame him, though, since Miller's always been so misanthropic in his worldview, but his next Batman works feel so unneccesary. At least THE DARK KNIGHT is still its own thing despite those unfortunste sequels (and its two prequels that are sequels to YEAR ONE).

DK2 is not really "different" from all the edgy 90's comics that DKR spawned. While parodying pointless edge, Miller just ended up making more edge. If he tried to replicate Kirby's art, he seemed to only have seen the simplicity and ugliness of it and turned it to 11, but he not the charm of it. And Kirbi's art is not really ugly, but rather stylistic. I think a more interesting direction would be if the comic started with a very gritty and edgy tone, but slowly reverted to a more cheerful and fantastical tone of the classic comics by reverting or introducing certain characters that acted like that and to really play on the contrast.

Nothing will be more iconic when batman declares he has grown past the concept of being old as Dick burns to death in motten slag.

It's wild that Miller is responsible for two of the best Batman stories (Year One and TDKR) but also two of the worst (All Star Batman and DK2).

It seems like Miller was trying to do a bunch of stuff that had been done better by others. - Azrael was already a reaction to dark and gritty comics: a "cooler", "edgier" Batman. - Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker had a Robin that was turned into the Joker. I'm not sure which of them was released first, but an animated movie takes a lot longer to create than a comic book does., so I assume RotJ started production first.

Knowing Miler's style, I feel like the Robin/Joker might have been a bit of meta-commentary on constantly resurrecting characters and the equating it with the psychological trauma/loss of self that is often the trade-off for an actual in-universe return to the living.

I can't really be that mad at Miller for the consequences of the Dark Knight Returns as he himself has seen what he (and Moore) ushered in, where just about EVERY hack writer and editor in the comic industry took the WRONG messages from TDKR and Watchmen and applied it to mainline comics. If anything, I save my disdain for those hack writers and idiot editors like Dan Didio and his moronic sensibilities {his over-reliance of 9/11 being reflected in the DC Universe and his pathetic attempts to copy/paste Marvel's growing stupidity mucking up its own universe onto DC} being TOP of that hate list. Yeah, I miss The BATMAN of O'Neil/Adams.

Actually, for the first time ever, I see unexpected depth in this story. Thanks!

You have actually somewhat redeemed Frank Miller, somewhat, in my eyes. Damn, Salazar! This is the best analysis of Miller's work I have ever seen, and Miller owes you one for doing it. Great work. Kudos.

I see what you are saying but if someone has to go through such great pains to explain that this is a parody then I think Frank Miller failed at this attempt to make a parody. Just my thoughts!

Surprised you're not covering the whole shebang of theFrank Miller universe that universe has a surprising amount of entries and spinoffs. As of this Date that Batman universe consist of: -The Dark Knight Returns & strikes again -holy terror(all bit censored since it was meant to be Batman but DC refused to let him be used that way) -Year One -Spawn/Batman - Batman: The last crusade -all-star Batman and Robin -Superman: Year One -Dark Knight: The Master Race -Dark Knight: The Golden Child

This is the Batman that Zack Snyder loves.

I think the biggest problem with DK2 is that it it all feels so spiteful and unnecessary. On the one hand, yes, you can read the story as a critique on the Dark Age of Comics, an entire era that Miller and Moore distanced themselves from like absent fathers. On the other hand, the man who did DK2 also went on to do Holy Terror, a response to 9/11 that defies description, and a book that was originally intended to be a Batman story before DC stepped in and said 'absolutely not'. 9/11 absolutely broke Miller's mind, I don't think that's a particularly spicy take, but the seeds were always there to begin with and this is the start of that dark period. You can definitely be charitable to DK2, I do agree that some of the criticisms are overly harsh and unfair, but, then again, 'overly harsh and unfair' describes the book itself rather well and it doesn't change the fact that it was made by a creator past their prime with no real understanding of what they were doing or where they were going anymore. DK2 is an ugly book in all senses of the word, and while I can appreciate what's being attempted, what's delivered is a horrible mess that fails in every meaningful way.