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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Comic Books / Politics Frank Miller Doesn't Know Much of Anything

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM

Over the weekend, sci-fi author David Brin responded to comics artist Frank Miller's dumb rant against Occupy Wall Street. Brin tears Miller apart by proving that one of his best-loved comics, 300, is founded on lies and a willfully ignorant reading of history. It's titled "Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! Spartans," and you should read the whole thing—Brin schools Miller's 300 on just about every single point, before it builds to its dramatic conclusion:


“300″ idolizes the same arrogant contempt for citizenship that eventually ruined classical Greece and Republican Rome, and that might bring the same fate to America.

It's pretty awesome stuff. Also a must-read: highly underrated comics writer Ann Nocenti's response to Miller, in which she sounds like an involved citizen of the world and not, oh, a housebound Fox News addict.

 

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Miller would support the Occupy protests if all the women there were virgin/whore types with pouty lips, enormous breasts, daddy issues and mastery of some form of martial arts.
Posted by dmitrir on November 15, 2011 at 12:43 PM · Report
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@Dmitrir - WHO WOULDN'T?!
Posted by Reymont on November 15, 2011 at 1:15 PM · Report
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Man, I woulda been an 'occupy' too.

hint hint reforming occupy.
Posted by frankieb on November 15, 2011 at 1:19 PM · Report
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Eww.
Posted by Ovidius on November 15, 2011 at 1:20 PM · Report
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I wouldn't say Nocenti is underrated as people who know who she is all seem to have a very high opinion of her writing. I was glad to hear that she's coming back to comic book writing. I might have to start reading "Green Arrow".

The typo in the first sentence of the linked response ("her career as a while") made me cringe.
Posted by tk. on November 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM · Report

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