"Holy Terror Batman!"
Wonkette tips us to plans by famed Batman writer Frank Miller, who breathed new life into the Batman franchise in the 1980s with the graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns," to have Gotham's Caped Crusader going after Osama bin Laden in an upcoming comic.
Says the story: Miller, who has already inked his way through 120 pages of the 200-page opus, told a recent comic book convention that the novel was an unashamed "piece of propaganda" in which Batman "kicks Al-Qaeda's ass."
He adds that use of comic book heroes for propaganda had an honorable tradition.
"Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for," he said. "These are our folk heroes. It just seems silly to chase around the Riddler when you've got Al-Qaeda out there."
No release date has been set for the new comic.
Let Us Know When the Justice League Secure Those Iraqi Pipelines [Wonkette]
'Holy Terror, Batman!,' Superhero Takes on Al-Queda [AFP via Yahoo!]
Says the story: Miller, who has already inked his way through 120 pages of the 200-page opus, told a recent comic book convention that the novel was an unashamed "piece of propaganda" in which Batman "kicks Al-Qaeda's ass."He adds that use of comic book heroes for propaganda had an honorable tradition.
"Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for," he said. "These are our folk heroes. It just seems silly to chase around the Riddler when you've got Al-Qaeda out there."
No release date has been set for the new comic.
Let Us Know When the Justice League Secure Those Iraqi Pipelines [Wonkette]
'Holy Terror, Batman!,' Superhero Takes on Al-Queda [AFP via Yahoo!]
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