{"id":14933,"date":"2016-03-07T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14933"},"modified":"2016-03-05T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T16:39:55","slug":"30th-anniversary-interview-with-frank-miller-the-dark-knight-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14933","title":{"rendered":"30th Anniversary Interview with Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z030716frankmiller_interview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although it&#8217;s hard to believe, this year marks the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1401263119?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1401263119&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">30th Anniversary of Frank Miller&#8217;s The Dark Knight Returns<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\" target=\"_blank\">CBR.com<\/a><\/strong> sat down for a short but informative <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/article\/frank-miller-talks-dark-knight-returns-30th-anniversary-angry-youth-beloved-heroes\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Frank Miller<\/a><\/strong> that&#8217;s worth a read. &nbsp;Here are a couple of tidbits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>When did you realize that it really was something that people were going to be talking about for decades to come? Was there a moment where you thought, &#8220;We&#8217;ve created something bigger than I ever expected&#8221;?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was an ongoing set of surprises. You go up to bat and you take your best shot. This one turned out to be a homer. But I didn&#8217;t expect it to keep on rewarding like this. Now, it&#8217;s become apparent that it&#8217;s going to be something that we can enjoy revisiting again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>When you see how influential your original take on Batman was, and the kinds of things that stuck forever: the way you did narrative dialogue captions over thought balloons, a lot of the approaches to the character. And now we&#8217;re seeing things like &#8220;Batman v Superman,&#8221; where we&#8217;re seeing a lot of imagery that comes directly from your pencil. What has that come to mean to you over the years? You&#8217;ve seen just how much people embraced what you did, sometimes swiped what you did?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;ve learned a lot since doing the first &#8220;Dark Knight.&#8221; I learned a lot about life too. Instead of resenting, as I first did, when they would take some of the stuff in the movies &#8212; I resented and I thought, &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m being ripped off!&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;ve come to realize that what I did was a piece of an overall collective work that&#8217;s evolving and changing as time goes by. I didn&#8217;t make up Batman, I just contributed to the myth. And now they&#8217;re using some of my stuff to take it in their own direction. God bless them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s hard to believe, this year marks the 30th Anniversary of Frank Miller&#8217;s The Dark Knight Returns. 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