He said: "I realized when I started Sin City that I found American and English comics be too wordy, too constipated, and Japanese comics to be too empty. Virgo used Billy's powers and mental state to make him turn his fantasy into a reality, essentially turning himself into a hero and creating his own villain using his powers and Virgo's biotech. The whole comic, right down to the fighting-baddies-with-human-heads-and-robot-bodies thing, was arguably the victim of shoddy writing. Written and illustrated by Miller with painted colors by Varley, 300 was a 1998 comic-book miniseries, released as a hardcover collection in 1999, retelling the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta. Even with the video replay, Peter refuses to believe the story and accuses Virgo of killing Taggart.

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Miller ends the interview claiming he will never make another Daredevil comic again (this will be proven false, in due time). Virgo, controlling the robots, starts a mental attack on the ronin, bringing forward Billy's repressed memory of murdering a local bully. The idea behind the second half of the story is complex enough that it is not worth summarizing; if you’ve read it, you don’t need a summary, and if you haven’t read it, there’s no point in spoiling the climax for you.Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, on January 27, 1957, [4] [5] and raised in Montpelier, Vermont, [4] the fifth of seven children of a nurse mother and a carpenter/electrician father. Ronin further erodes Miller’s already precarious position as one of the very few major artists to emerge from mainstream comics since the early ’70s. It’s an, uh, striking image, but the notion of sacrificing innocents had more of a moral resonance than this gruesome trick; at the least, keeping it around as a possibility would have given the narrative a little more tension. While it featured five self-contained tales, the story 'Wanted: Santa Claus – Dead or Alive', written by Denny O'Neil and penciled by Miller was the standout. Worse, Miller’s often clumsy verbal jousting reflects a contempo­rary cynicism that is most distracting: some of the mid-battle banter would not be out of place in Spider-Man.

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Produced by Frank Miller and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, Elektra: Assassin was an eight-issue limited series. Nope, what really bothered Moore was the Spartans’ homophobia towards the Athenians -- after all, pederasty was commonplace in all Grecian militaries and education systems, so having the Spartans show distain for “boy-lovers” is totally illogical. As a result, when the demon invades the center and chases toward the protagonist, the tension is sapped by the fact that we haven’t the foggiest idea where he is, where he’s going, or how fast he’s getting there. The only way to win is to shatter the illusion, and the only way to shatter the illusion is for the Ronin to lose. Third, she has deliberately restricted herself further by do­ing most of every page in one or at most two basic colors, but using the process col­or to give herself an infinity of shades within these colors.for a bunch of poorly disguised stand-ins: Gotham became Empire City, Batman became The Fixer, and things got a whole lot darker. The sight of her being overpowered and manhandled by a bunch of warty flesh-eating troglodytes is in no way arousing. I can’t imagine that Miller will be able to pick up his character a full sixth of the way into his story and give him any kind of subtext; in fact, the clumsy attempts at characterization (the old warrior) here and his track record with Daredevil lead me to suspect that it won’t get any better. We are now at the heart of Miller’s prob­lems as an artist: his drawing is all tech­nique and no observation.

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Ultimately, however, Miller was persuaded by publisher Jenette Kahn that DC Comics would give him as much freedom as he desired for the series, [5] and DC published Ronin beginning in 1983. His differences with DC Comics put aside, he saw the sequel initially released as a three-issue miniseries, [68] and though it sold well, [69] it received a mixed to negative reception. A cinematic blending of words and pictures, the science fiction epic was written and drawn by Frank Miller. The Aquarius Corporation is an idealistic company founded by three people: Peter McKenna, inventor of biocircuitry, his wife, Casey McKenna, Aquarius' head of security, and Mr.

Billy too, considering he's little more than a background character until the revelation at the end that he was the main character the whole time. On April 28, 2022, it was reported that Miller was launching an American comic book publishing company titled Frank Miller Presents, or FMP.