After the break, check out the latest episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, with your hosts, Tucker Stone, Matt Seneca, Chris Mautner & Joe "The Meatgrinder" McCulloch!
It's time to take a page from the baby book: a 1980s DC Comic that is! It's Frank Miller's Ronin, and yes, everybody is wearing tight shoes and really awake this time, with interruptions and "I don't agree with you sir" ringing out like a turn of the century switchboard. We also cover Chris Claremont's X-men as much as we probably ever will. Bring it on home, Frank!
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I’ve never heard Ronin brought up as a major Miller work, but this episode convinced me to track it down.
If you’re taking more listener suggestions, I would really like an episode on Paul Chadwick’s Concrete.
Posted by: Tyler | 2021.03.11 at 21:34
Concrete is an all time top 10 comic for me. You have an advocate sir.
Posted by: Matt Seneca | 2021.03.11 at 23:43
Sweet, thanks Matt!
Posted by: Tyler | 2021.03.12 at 08:38
Great stuff, gents, all I could have hoped for. Hope you do more Miller. He's in an odd position whereby his work has been as influential as Moore but rarely gets talked about.
I do think the race stuff can be thought about a bit more and also the disability theme which runs though Miller. Taggart is a name from Ayn Rand, no? And I thought there is a fair bit of Heinlein in the book.
One of my earliest critical memories as a reader of comics is making a distinction between the Miller approach (where the words/art is totally integrated) and the Claremont (or, really, Stan Lee) approach (where, perhaps unfairly, I saw the words as pasted on and in tension with the art). So picking up that in Miller was one of my path ways to alternative comics.
Posted by: Jeet Heer | 2021.03.14 at 15:37