tap the brakes, Frank Miller

[akaJudge]

"Tap the Brakes, Frank Miller" almost sounds like the name of a Judy Blume novel.

First, this made me snarf loud enough that my co-worker came over to see if I needed help.  Hilarious.  Second, I think he's always been a creepy misogynistic asshole, but he had editors keeping him in check.  Then he got big enough to shout down anyone who disagreed with him, and you have stuff like "The Spirit" movie.

edit:  and "Holy Terror," ferchrissakes

[crumbum]

David Brin rebuts Frank Miller by way of reviewing 300:

http://davidbrin.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/move-over-frank-miller-or-why-the-occupy-wall-street-kids-are-better-than-spartans/

'...this is not just artistic license. “300″ idolizes the same arrogant contempt for citizenship that eventually ruined classical Greece and Republican Rome, and that might bring the same fate to America.'

[akaJudge]

man, i must be the only person who liked 300

[cutout]

First, this made me snarf loud enough that my co-worker came over to see if I needed help.

Same here. I almost never snort out loud like that but that's twice in one week, thanks to ChrisRawk and this one by cavorting with nudists.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

"Tap the Brakes, Frank Miller" almost sounds like the name of a Judy Blume novel.

First, this made me snarf loud enough that my co-worker came over to see if I needed help.  Hilarious.  Second, I think he's always been a creepy misogynistic asshole, but he had editors keeping him in check.  Then he got big enough to shout down anyone who disagreed with him, and you have stuff like "The Spirit" movie.

edit:  and "Holy Terror," ferchrissakes

I've heard from an ex-Marvel editor that worked with him in the 80s (but no longer speaks to him) that he used to be a nice, soft-spoken guy, and that this FM doesn't seem like the same person.

[Kormod]

Hah:

[ChrisRawk]

First, this made me snarf loud enough that my co-worker came over to see if I needed help.

Same here. I almost never snort out loud like that but that's twice in one week, thanks to ChrisRawk and this one by cavorting with nudists.

Glad to be of service, kind sir.

man, i must be the only person who liked 300

I remember liking the movie when it first came out.  I'm very curious to see what Snyder does with Superman.

Is HOLY TERROR as insane as I'm imagining it in my head?

[Rick in Salt Lake]

Oh man, Neal Adams... that guy is a whole other kind of crank.

http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/debate-with-hallow-earth-proponent-neal-adams/

Duuude... You should track down the interview with Neil Admas done by Steve Novella on the podcast "The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe". It was done several years ago and it is wholly worth listening to. But you're right, that cat is out there... Not quite to the level of... say Dave Sim, but out there...

[crumbum]

Oh man, Neal Adams... that guy is a whole other kind of crank.

http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/debate-with-hallow-earth-proponent-neal-adams/

Duuude... You should track down the interview with Neil Admas done by Steve Novella on the podcast "The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe". It was done several years ago and it is wholly worth listening to. But you're right, that cat is out there... Not quite to the level of... say Dave Sim, but out there...

Yeah, that interview was where I became aware of his current interests. He is the perfect example of that axiom about people's actual knowledge of a given subject being inversely proportional to their confidence in what they know.

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Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask
From Wall St to Athens and Occupy sit-ins worldwide, protesters are wearing masks inspired by V for Vendetta. Here, its author discusses why his avenging hero has such potency today

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/27/alan-moore-v-vendetta-mask-protest?CMP=twt_gu

[cavorting with nudists]

Alan Moore responds to Fedora McScowly:

“As far as I can see, the Occupy movement is just ordinary people reclaiming rights which should always have been theirs. I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it; they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s too big to fail. It’s a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it. I’m sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces, he’d be more in favour of it. We would definitely have to agree to differ on that one.”

http://www.badhaven.com/comics/comic-news/alan-moore-responds-to-frank-millers-occupy-rant/

[Kormod]

I'm assuming this is the type of hoodlum Alan Moore was referring to ("young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces"):

[Cotton]

As much as I don't agree with/believe most of Moore's rants, I love it when he emerges from his crazy weed cloud to issue them.

[Rick in Salt Lake]

As much as I don't agree with/believe most of Moore's rants, I love it when he emerges from his crazy weed cloud to issue them.

The rants come from little voice of the wizzards living in his beard...