Revisionist History: Frank Miller Answers Questions On Reddit

Frank Miller was behind a computer keyboard yesterday. Someone made a terrible, terrible mistake.

Here’s what I’m talking about: the last time Frank sat down specifically to publish something he thought on the Internet, it was to post a diatribe about the Occupy Wall Street kids who were, at the time, camping out in public parks around the United States. Frank spent a few hundred words and a couple of amateurish “bowel movement” jokes comparing these neo-rich-kid-hippies with Al-Queda, which not only sounded like unnecessary histrionics, but really kinda ridiculous. After all, most world-class terrorist organizations ask their collaborators to have a useful skill. You know, beyond drum circles. But I digress.

Anyway, Frank’s public presence since 2011 has been comprised of that blog post and his original graphic novel Holy Terror, which was a Batman story that DC Comics refused to publish. You know, the same DC Comics that published Kevin Smith’s The Widening Gyre, where Smith retconned Batman to have pissed his pants during his first confrontation with the mob in Batman: Year One, written by… some guy who I can’t remember. I remember he was a good writer at the time, though.

So this is the first time in almost three years Frank has put himself out for Internet scrutiny, and I have to give him credit for doing it in a Reddit Ask Me Anything, where Miller has to boldly face questions like:

[–]Izawwlgood 348 points 1 day ago

Specifically, Miller was asked what hero he doesn’t have much of a history with that he might like to tackle, and – go figure – the answer is Captain America:

Oooh. That’s a tough one. It changes a lot. Sometimes I love minor characters like the Flash or The Atom, he’s a hero who gets small, atomic sized, if he wants to. They’ve all funky powers that serve them well, same way they all run around in their underwear. They’ve done all the ones I like the best. I love what they’ve done with Iron Man, I love what they’ve done with Captain America. Captain America would probably be the one I would most want to do.

Captain America would be a cool hero for Miller to tackle for the first time… had he not already done it in his Daredevil: Born Again.

In that comic, Miller had Cap rebel against orders and even attack a superior officer to get information on how to stop a soldier from an unnecessary and optional war from running amok here at home, all to protect civilians in New York from having to become involved in a war they never chose and might never have supported.

And I’m sure Miller would write Cap exactly the same way today.