Bat. shit. crazy.
Posted by irrgIt’s kind of hard to miss out on two pretty apparent facts:
- DC is getting more press than they wanted on the All-Star Batman swear-fest recall.
- Frank Miller is batshit crazy.
Batshit crazy? In my opinion, yes. If his political views — which are unavoidable in the comics world as well, as Frank is (or was) allegedly working on a Batman versus Al Qaeda series — aren’t enough, Frank describes the F—up as terrible and glorious.
Wait, what?
Glorious? Frank, son, I don’t care who you vote for in the end. But I do care that a book like All-Star Batman has this kind of language. Don’t get me wrong, I do a fucking large amount of good-old-fashioned cursing, but this is, plainly, not fucking neccesary to tell a goddamn good story. Even in Vertigo books, where it really doesn’t bother me when there’s explicit language, they use them with a certain kind of restraint. Frank? Frank said fuck no, I’m the goddamn Frank Miller, kid.
“I wrote the actual words in the script and had them put on the page so the black bars would be the right size on the page,” Miller explained. In this latest issue, the bars are there but on a few you can read right through them; they’re more gray than black. “It’s a simple printing error,” Miller said. “That’s what it is.”
Yes, it’s a simple printing error. But there’s tons of ways that this could have been avoided, the number one being: Don’t put the fucking words in the goddamn speech balloons.
