is it wrong that I kinda enjoyed the first half of Frank Miller's Holy Terror? I actually bought the hardcore book after hearing so much about it, i had to check it out. It was an interresting take on how BootlegBatman would react to a real-life, realistic situation (a dirty bomb blowing up in NY).
I enjoyed the layouts and the presentation, but it quickly becomes bizzare and very superficial. The terrorists built a base under a church or something and were planning to blow up half of the continent with a super nuke or
Something. It's been quite a while and the tone switch was a major turnoff
You had really cool panels like the ones showing the id cards (or pics) of random people "fading out" as the girl suicide bomber triggers her vest, but at the same thing, the writing was a super basic take on terrorists motivations.. the girl says something like "i do this because i hate your freedoms" or something like that. It feels poorly researched.
The art is getting crappier and crappier as the book progresses too.
I see it more as the artistic reaction of someone who is really angry at something and had to get it out of his system. 9/11 deeply affected him and the book really feels like he just walked home after seeing all this and wrote non-stop for 48 hours while chain smoking. You can feel that he's getting less and less coherent..
sorry for the spelling, i'm on mobile
