Frank Miller’s Holy Terror Is Fodder for Anti-Islam Set

[thundley4]

Frank Miller doesn’t do things halfway. One of the true comic-book greats, he’s created several of the most extraordinary stories ever to grace the art form. So perhaps it’s fitting that now he’s produced one of the most appalling, offensive and vindictive comics of all time.

Holy Terror, Miller’s long, long, long-awaited statement on 9/11 and counterterrorism, hit comic book stores Wednesday. Longtime Miller watchers have viewed it with apprehension, hoping that his dark views about the source of that national trauma wouldn’t turn the comic into a vulgar, one-dimensional revenge fantasy. They were wrong. It’s even worse than that.

Miller’s Holy Terror is a screed against Islam, completely uninterested in any nuance or empathy toward 1.2 billion people he conflates with a few murderous conspiracy theorists. It’s no accident that it’s being released ten years after 9/11. This comic would be unthinkable during the unity that the U.S. felt after the attack.

Instead, it’s a perfect cultural artifact of this dark period in American life, when the FBI teaches its agents that “mainstream” Islam is indistinguishable from terrorism and a community center near Ground Zero gets labeled a “victory mosque.” Call it the artwork of 9/11 decadence, when all that remains of a horror is a carefully nurtured grievance

Holy Terror, the inaugural offering from Legendary Comics, starts out with the Fixer, an ersatz Batman, enjoying a tryst with an ersatz Catwoman when they’re interrupted by a nail bomb. The culprit: a “humanities major” named Amina, an Islamist version of the psychopathic Rorschach from Watchmen, who sneers that the “haughty” skyline of Empire City is like “sharpened sticks aimed at the eyes of God.”

The Fixer’s response is to go to war — indiscriminately. “We give them what they want, minus the innocent victims,” the Fixer thinks as he opens fire. To bring the point home Miller draws 14 stereotypical Muslim faces around the righteous anti-hero. Naturally, the only way to learn more about the next attack is to torture a surviving terrorist — which Miller illustrates pornographically — even though the Scary Muslim says “pain means nothing to me,” so it’s not like the Fixer is torturing, you know, a human being.

Wired Magazine

I haven't bought a comic in years, but I may have to look for this one.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZg4UOB2uCk[/youtube]

[Chris_]

I don't buy comics and never have, but I did get to read Miller's 'Dark Knight' and thought it was well done.

I never found the allure of the comic.  I'd rather read a book.

[FreeBorn]

I wonder if this one could be headed for the big screen.
A mega production to rival the Batman series or maybe Ironman. Done, in the can, all set for release and then at the last minute pulled by leftist Hollyweird execs so it never gets seen.

Ugh, I could see that happening.

[thundley4]

I don't buy comics and never have, but I did get to read Miller's 'Dark Knight' and thought it was well done.

I never found the allure of the comic.  I'd rather read a book.

I think they call these  graphic novels, but they aren't much different than comic books.  


I did buy several comics a few years ago, the first 3 issues of the X-Files.  Never read them, just stuck them in a zip-loc bag in my desk.

[Chris_]

I guess I wasn't around for the "cool" comics.  The only ones I remember were the ones I bought at the gas station on the way to Florida or North Carolina or wherever we here having our summer vacation when I was a child.  I just found them uninteresting and disappointing, but reading a book in the car isn't very comfortable so there wasn't much of an alternative.

[Ronin]

Wired Magazine

I haven't bought a comic in years, but I may have to look for this one.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZg4UOB2uCk[/youtube]

I'd love a copy myself.

[Mr Mannn]

Wow. The author's reactions are hilarious. The liberal PC reaction to truth.
How dare a story teller depict muslims as...terrorists!