The last time I spoke about legendary graphic novelist Frank Miller, the man who gave us shirtless Spartans spouting bloodshed one-liners at one another like cool-prick catchphrase was their native tongue, I made some disparaging remarks: he's a douche, he sucks, I'm gonna "knife" him, etc...
I wasn't in the least bit excited about his upcoming film adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. Then I saw this poster. It's pretty dead-on. I like the incorporation of the text into the cityscapes, an Eisner staple. It's striking.
Then I saw this:
Does it still look too much like Sin City? Well, yeah. It feels too dark and over-the-top to really represent the brilliance Eisner imbued this legendary character with, but I'll say this for it:
It looks fucking cool.
When it all comes down to it, that's pretty much the only thing that's going to get asses in seats for a character created when most of this generation's grandparents were kids who's had little to no mainstream media exposure.
Maybe Frank Miller is on to something...the fucker.
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