u Got me there, bro. i Really hope he pulls one out of his hat and surprises me and yeah, that's where he'll do it- i have a feeling he has a sneak up his sleeve, but i've been burned by him. fear and hope, man. i grew up getting in fistfights at school over FM, runnin up on mf's and demanding they read dkr if they thought comics were just for kids; hell, i raised Hay-yull over it's non-inclusion on the required reading list for our 11th grade american history's section on the 20th century, media, and the gov't.
i've always loved the fact that someone who at least Aims for writing like chandler but read campbell as well, and yes, k-von could paint like a wu li badass and take bats seriously to the political & the mythic hardboiled. but i've also seen how creators get lazy upon success and u have to admit, his work of late doesn't match up to what made him great.
there's no way i won't read it, and that's the biggest compliment that belies my griping. there's those guys doing bats confidential rt now, and i wouldn't buy an issue if u paid for it, much less eat a knuckle sandwich for em or waste 10 more minutes of my life reading their crap; don't remember their names and don't care enuff to look it up- screw em. that's because i hold em to a pretty low bar after reading em; they ain't Real writers and artists tackling Real subjects. they're hired hacks, barely competent enuff to land the gig. they suck. they're the danielle steels of comics; not even that, but the hacks that Aspire to be danielle steeles. miller ain't; miller's the Man, and that's why we expect and even demand better from him every time out- we know he can deliver. it's just more painful when he misses. it didn't hurt me when batsconf sucked; i didn't expect jack from em. i might have been momentarily irked that i blew 3 bux on a batbook i coulda drawn better that had rotten lousy writing. but i don't care.
with miller, i invest hope. i've invested plenty of dam money in him over the years in increments i enjoyed the Hell out of, gave away, and bought several times again without complaint, happy as hell to do it, and beyond that, like i alluded to before. i guess, if u drag fan back out to 'fanatic', u could say i've been one for him, and i hate feeling embarrassed for him. i hate not wanting to recommend something he does to someone who's never read comics. i hate not enjoying the time i spend reading his stuff before bed so i can dream it, grabbing watchmen or swamp thing to get the bad taste of ASB&R out of my brain before i conk out.
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