One wonder if DC has their lawyers looking at the contract trying to figure out a way around Miller's (presumptive) pay-or-play contract.

One wonders if Bob Kane's ghost is going to show up, point to the created by credit, and say "hey, don't blame this crap on me!"

One wonders if Bob Kane's ghost is going to show up, point to the created by credit, and say "hey, don't blame this crap on me!"

Suddenly, Bill Finger's deal doesn't seem quite so bad.

Hey, there's an idea, "All-Star Batman Created by Alan Smithee"

One wonders, looking at the art, if the series couldn't be rescripted to actually be compelling rather than offensive.
Ignoring the words, it's one of the stronger drawings of Diana I can remember. It's pretty easy for me to ignore Frank Miller just as I've always ignored Dave Sim. Sadly, a lot of people are buying this which suggests to me that deep down a lot of people really hate the idea of superheroes and wish they could make themselves stop buying them.

Fortunately, I think over the next year between Countdown, Gail Simone taking over Wonder Woman, and the Black Canary
mini-series we should see some strong depictions of female characters. Hopefully, those will offset the one issue that
Miller manages to generate a year.

Regarding the art: That is an amazingly ineffective way to wear a trenchcoat. Couldn't possibly be to expose her to male gaze like a lingerie model or anything, could it?

Just a question for the males which - oh boy - pretty much covers this entire audience... does no one find this just a little degrading in terms of what it says about the male mind? And seriously, the stench of men??
Whilst we never run out of words when it comes to whinging about sexisism in terms of women, no body's even mentioned the degradtion of men here. Then again, maybe that's because the cover's right. Let's see if I can't get a response to that one.

Erin, I can't speak for every male, but this particular sperm donor finds just about everything that Frank Miller does to be degrading towards both men and women. It seems to me (and I confess I haven't read all that much of his work) that he portrays men (with the exception of Batman or Marv or whoever the hero du jour may be) as filthy subhuman perverts. The women fall into two categories -- victims and over-sexed take-no-prisoners warrior women.

Oh, absolutely. Ditto what Jason says.

And seeing something like the image above (to say nothing of the text) or Power Girl's now-infamous look or Lady Death (whom I routinely mock in my Quick Reviews) irritates me in part because of what it suggests about the male of the species in the world of the story and in what the publishers perceive as their audience (although in the publisher's case there's the extra frustration that, apparently, they're right to some extent).

Greg and I both addressed the impact of sexism on men in the Mary Jane statue comments.

Frank Miller as a writer is about on par with Jim Lee as an illustrator. Stiff, unrealistic, and highly overrated.

That page screams "Hey, guess who was unhappy about his divorce settlement?"