CBR: Legendary Confirm's Frank Miller's "Holy Terror"

[CBR News]

Frank Miller's long-gestating superhero vs. al-Qaeda comic will finish its march from Batman book to graphic novel as Legendary Pictures gives "Holy Terror" an official release date three days after the 10th anniversary of 9/11.


Full article here.

[Drz]

Ah so it's in black and white like Batman: Holy Terror was seemingly also going to be.

[JoeComics]

“My guy carries a couple of guns and is up against an existential threat. He’s not just up against a goofy villain. Ignoring an enemy that’s committed to our annihilation is kind of silly. It just seems that chasing the Riddler around seems silly compared to what’s going on out there. I’ve taken Batman as far as he can go.”

I love this. I wonder if Miller is being satirical with this statement or is unaware just how ironic it really is.

I remember Captain America wining world war II, by punching out Hitler. That was great times. So many lives saved.


I read Batman for the escapism that entertainment provides. If I want to know about real world villains I just have to search the internet, pick up a newspaper, or watch some TV.

[I'mAWheel]

Sad on a number of levels, from the staggeringly shaky quality of Miller's recent art, to the mind-numbingly simplistic revenge fantasy content, to the fact that it's being published by an IP farm instead of an actual publisher of comic books. Pass, pass, pass.

[dan bailey]

If only I were a comics creator.

I'd come up with a costumed criminal called the Existential Threat.

And then Miller & I could go to town! Solid gold!

[Syzlak]

Another poster on a previous message board said it best..."pigeons sh*tting on a statue." That's all you haters really are. Miller's a legend, and....you're not.

Yes, you guys are entitled to express an opinion, but I am so tired of people who express nothing but negative opinions. Those are the people who should "just go away".... in my opinion.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to this. Interested to see if Miller's artwork evolves in a new direction here. Miller's political satire has been nuanced in the past. I have a hard time believing this will be just a revenge fantasy.

[dr chimp]

“My guy carries a couple of guns and is up against an existential threat. He’s not just up against a goofy villain. Ignoring an enemy that’s committed to our annihilation is kind of silly. It just seems that chasing the Riddler around seems silly compared to what’s going on out there. I’ve taken Batman as far as he can go.”

there is crass and then there is this press release statement

[I'mAWheel]

Another poster on a previous message board said it best..."pigeons sh*tting on a statue." That's all you haters really are. Miller's a legend, and....you're not.

This is pretty sad, too. Sean Connery is a legend, and like Frank Miller, he's produced some absolutely dreadful work. So has virtually everybody. I fail to see what a given artist's general reputation has to do with my critical capacity as a patron of the arts. Believe me, I'm not the only person who thinks that Miller has been producing awful comics for the last 20 or so years. Not by a longshot.

Yes, you guys are entitled to express an opinion, but I am so tired of people who express nothing but negative opinions. Those are the people who should "just go away".... in my opinion.

This is the first negative post about comics I've made on the CBR forums. Sorry for your luck?

[Congo Jack]

I can't wait for this - love Frank's work. Is this the first big thing he has written and drawn since DK2? EDIT: and XERXES obviously.

[Hoss]

I miss Miller just wanting to tell a good story and allowing any metaphor or politics to less conscious and more secondary. I've always felt that besides Klaus Janson's awesome inks, the big difference between DKR and DKSA is that the first is a Batman story and the second is a commentary on Batman. Looks like he's still doing the same thing...

[Jude]

I don't agree with his political stance regarding Islam as an existential threat to the american way of life....

Neither do I. So when he comes out with a work which expresses just that, I won't encourage him by buying it.

[Syzlak]

Comparison's to dead people. Classy. Half the posts on a board taken up by one person in order to trash a creator said poster dislikes. Now that's pathetically silly. Again, pigeons sh*tting on a statue.

Let's see,
Born Again, Dark Knight, Elecktra Assassin, Ronin, Year One, Give Me Liberty, Hard Boiled, Sin City, 300.

Fantastic works all and enough to qualify Miller as a legend in the medium. One would think comic fans would have a bit more respect for the legends of the field (including Kirby. Please, don't be so crass about the King.) Perhaps you would like to tell us how Gene Colon's work from the past ten years was trash?

The Miller bashing always makes me think of Kirby's reception in the 70's. People thought he was out of step, out of date. His stuff didn't jive with the new Adams style realism, and seldom lasted beyond ten issues. Here we are many years later and the later Kirby is loved and embraced by many and his creations from that period have endured. Something makes me think the reception of the later Miller period, when it's all said and done, will go through a similar reversal.

Now please, instead of again posting how low your opinion of Miller is, go on to a board on something you like and enjoy and give it some praise.

[EMeadow]

120 pages for a $30 hardcover means I'll probably wait for a softcover version of the book.

[Ken King]

Speaking of Holy Terrors, I read that the HT series Phil Hester did awhile back for Image Comics has returned with a new publisher. I remember digging it back in the day so I'll probably skip Frank's and give Hester's another shot.

[dan bailey]

Actually, I think Kirby pretty much lost it after '69. I wondered about it at the time with the Fourth World stuff -- I could be wrong, but I get the impression you don't have a particularly long history with comics, whereas I'm still dealing with trauma of the price-increase to 15 cents -- & I definitely thought so a few years later when he took over Captain America & Black Panther.

Doesn't make him any less of a legend, or for that matter anything but the single most vital & important force the field has ever produced, but I guess it implies that I'm not one to let past achievement erase what I might regard as later lapses. Apparently, that's a mortal sin in your eyes. Sorry about that.

On the other hand, my favorite artist is, I believe, 89 -- John Severin. Damn if he isn't still hitting it out of the park. So was Gene the Dean, as Cap #601 so clearly showed.

The idea of Miller being mentioned in the same post as both those guys, which of course I'm making sure happens with my every keystroke right now, makes me ill, to be honest.