the dark knight returns: the last crusade was basically fine

you fools ! this isn't even my final form ! 

Ack its kinda sad. what i think we want from frank miler in this day and age is entertaining madness and we're not getting that at all. what we're getting is well written if a little boring comics. well dark knight 3 might not be well written but its inoffensive at least if only in comparison to millers famously terrible double act of the dark knight strikes again and all star batman and robin.

The last crusade tells the tale of the death of the dark knights universes jason todd and it dose that surprisingly well. batman in this tale is written STAGGERINGLY  humanly. with coherent thoughts and feelings on his own mortality and increasing age. its a far cry from the GOD DAMN BATMAN. thes very little repetitive miller dialog and what we do get is from the joker which works for his insane personalty. like its not good dialog bit it fits for him at least.

The females of the comic sadly don't come off better than other miller works. existing mostly to be victims or to be slept with or to be more than a little domonatrixy but that fits with late arrival vilian poison ivs character. at least non of them are out like or liken to prostitutes. so that's a small positive step at least.


It feels a lot closer to the dark knight returns in tone than the main dark knight 3 book that this ones spun out from. prolly thanks to jr jrs art which is lovely but doesn't feel like his best work. not necessarily bad jr jr art but its a bit meh here and there.

I did enjoy the tone set for the book . it felt a little like a bronze age batman story. i think because of the focuse on batman and robin and the more human and very un bat god ish depiction of Bruce. that bronze age tone makes sense for something that's meant to lead into the very dark age dark knight returns.

We didn't really need to know how jason todd died but this book did an effective job detailing jasons place in the canon of this universe and his eventual fate. which might be a lot more sinister than being beaten to death, though that also happens. because its grim yo.

So  that's all well and goo then. millers no longer churning out that offensive crap he turned to so heavily after his sin city days. buttttttttt how much of of this book was actually written by miller is debatable. brain azzarelos been co writing this and dk3 with miller and iv herd tell azzarelos the one been doing most of the heavy lifting on the writing duties. witch is hella believable with the sheer lack of millers calling cards.

Miller dose good work whens hes not actually doing the writing. soon we will just have frank miller as a brand . like tom Clancy.  better comics is what we should stive for but what will happen to the madness ?

WHAT OF THE MADNESSS !?"?"??"