Hailed as comics masterpieces, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again are Frank Miller's (300 and Sin City) reinvention of Gotham's legendary protector. Miller's Dark Knight stories remain some of the most influential ever told in comics, with their echoes felt in all media forms of DC's storytelling. Both stories are now collected in their entirety in a beautifully designed Absolute edition.
Writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in this saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, 10 years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Forced to take action, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by a new Robin--a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.
Then, it's three years later and the DC Universe is at peace. At least on the surface. And Batman must return once again to save the world from itself. Still, things look fine: a perfectly choreographed, pretty little world where everything that's ugly, or even potentially disturbing, is all nicely wrapped up with neat little ribbons and swept under the carpet. Only Batman knows better. He's watched it fester to near-breaking point, and it's time for the only free man left who can effect any real change to bring it all down around their ears once and for all.
Collects Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4, Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1-3 and bonus design and story pages.
Praise for Frank Miller's Dark Knight
"In four groundbreaking issues in late 1986, Miller's Dark Knight Returns delighted and enraged comic book classicists by turning Batman--a beloved but gimmicky hero who seemed to have the keys of life forever tucked into his utility belt-into a brooding vigilante, bleak, grim and full of rooftop psychosis." --USA Today
"There's never been storytelling quite like this. It took someone who views comics as an art to create it." --Washington Post
