The Dark Knight Returns continues its turn in the blogosphere spotlight. Here’s Dave Intermittent arguing that in DKR (and in the Sin City books), Frank Miller boils his characters down to their essence and then blows that essence up to gigantic proportions. (Sounds about right; and it’s always nice to find another unabashed Miller fan.)
And here’s Steven Berg (again), talking about how only those characters who refuse to judge Batman are allowed to judge Batman, and how Batman’s rogues gallery serve as catalysts for narrative crises in the novel. I’d like to see him flesh these ideas out a bit more (what are the differences between the crises that Two-Face, the Mutant Leader, the Joker, and Superman engender?), but I’m intrigued thus far.