According to Deadline, comic book creator Frank Miller and Puss In Boots writer Tom Wheeler are developing a 10-episode Netflix series and a YA book about the Lady Of The Lake from the King Arthur legends. Titled Cursed, the story is about Nimue, a teenage girl who is destined to live in a lake and protect a magic…
DC is tapping some of its most talented and celebrated modern creators—and also its resident crazy genius, Frank Miller—for its latest prestige publishing project. According to Entertainment Weekly, the comics company has just announced a new “Black Label” selection, featuring work from all-star writers and artists…
Among major superhero film series, Batman’s saga has been relatively straight-forward. There are really three eras: the early, beloved Tim Burton movies; the campy, much-ridiculed Joel Schumacher films; then the legendary Christopher Nolan trilogy. Unlike Superman or Spider-Man or The X-Men, which have all shuffled…
Last spring, I encountered a feeling altogether new: There was a Batman movie in theaters, and I had no interest in seeing it. Everything surrounding Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice—the dishwater palette of its marketing material, the resurrection (and re-dispatching) of Thomas and Martha Wayne, the words “directed…
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.
It looks like the box office stink of 300: Rise Of An Empire and The Spirit has finally dissipated, as Hollywood is getting back into the Frank Miller business. Thankfully, he’s not getting his hands anywhere near an actual production, but his comic mini-series Hard Boiled might be getting a big-screen adaptation. Not…
Nowadays, it should be considered something of an achievement when legendary comics scribe and penciler Frank Miller manages to get through an interview without saying something either grumpy or inflammatory or—in a move hereby referred to as “Miller Time”—both at once. Whether it’s being pissed off about Occupy Wall…
He has conquered every medium from print to television to film, starting in 1938, but Superman has not been cool for at least three decades. The Man Of Steel’s reputation started to slip in the mid-1980s, starting around the third or fourth installment in his movie franchise. Not coincidentally, Frank Miller’s The…
Back Issues is a feature discussing a major comic of the past. This week: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s groundbreaking 1986 miniseries that thrust Batman back in the spotlight and served as major inspiration for Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.
The second season of Marvel’s Daredevil only recently premiered, and while some people have binged through it already and others are going at a slower pace, there’s a lot to catch within this show. As the show has expanded with new characters Elektra, The Punisher, and many others, so too has it expanded with its many…
Once Deadpool made (and continues to make) boatloads of money, people were curious what that would mean for other comic book properties. If an R-rated, hyperviolent, profanity-laced film can do so well, then perhaps other films featuring caped crusaders would bring in great box office numbers as well. Guardians Of The…
With the appearance of such seminal titles as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns in the mid-1980s, superhero comics entered their so-called and still-ongoing Dark Age, an era that represents either a cynical degradation of the medium or an elevation of the form to new artistic heights. Or…
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.
We recently reported that Frank Miller would be releasing the final part of his Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, in the fall of this year. The first installment, The Dark Knight Returns, is a classic of the genre. The second one, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, is an hilarious mess. Given that…
There were a significant number of new comics announced at this year’s Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), but one piece of news dominated the convention: Frank Miller returning to Batman for The Dark Knight III: The Master Race. Miller is co-writing the Fall 2015 series with Brian Azzarello while an…
With Jared Leto’s Joker lighting fireworks in the Hot Topic parking lot, DC is apparently doubling up its efforts to reinforce the idea that Gotham City is totally hardcore. It is doing so by wheeling Frank Miller, originator of the “Have you ever noticed that Batman is kind of a fascist, but that’s also kind of…
Will Eisner’s The Spirit comic has been influential in its panel designs, graphic representation of titles, and even forming various archetypes of the superhero genre. The strip, which started in newspapers in 1940, has also been very influential to many animators and graphic designers who saw an artist able to marry…
How did Matt Murdock go from blind orphan to high-flying, ass-kicking vigilante? Who taught him to fight if it wasn’t his father? The answer is right in the title of this episode, which introduces a key figure from Matt’s past as Stick (a perfectly cast Scott Glenn) arrives in present-day Hell’s Kitchen, returning…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since the first Sin City. The 2005 adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novels pioneered the new comic aesthetic, translating Miller’s black-and-white panels of the anarchic Basin City using CGI. Since then, technology has grown, along with a couple of imitators (Sucker…
Why it took Robert Rodriguez almost a decade to stumble back down the darkened, digital alleys of (Ba)Sin City is anyone’s guess. Perhaps he knew on some level, as the rest of the world soon will, that two hours was all the time worth spending in Frank Miller’s monochromatic sandbox—a place where every element of…
