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Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: ChipRawks Date: July 23, 2011, 9:10 am
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[CENTER]Holy Terror
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Frank Miller's Holy Terror Trailer #1
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Holy Terror? Try Holy Sh*t, that was horrible!!! What the phuck
was this garbage? This is what Frank Miller spent all his time
writing, not writing, writing, not writing, changing the
character from Batman to The Fixer? Mr. Miller just outdid
himself here. He made me forget the abysmal Batman: The Dark
Knight Strikes Again
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corrected.
Now about this pile of dung. First off, the art is horrible.
It's a lazy man's, bastardization of his Sin City style. Second,
things that take place within the panels are so chaotic that you
really can't tell if you're looking at a foot or a hand or a car
or what. Third, the main characters are poorly thought out both
in design and background story. Forth, the story itself was
lame. There was no set up at all. Let me put it this way. Go
rent True Lies and then fast-forward all the way to the final 20
minutes of the movie and there you have it. Reading this "book"
was just one long fight scene and then it's over. There is no
set up and there certainly is no resolution other than.....
Oh forget it. I've already wasted enough of my time here. This
is a Skip for me and the rest of humanity. So, if this is so
bad, then how did it get even a half star rating? I'm glad you
asked. You know when you buy a new car and it comes with that
"new car smell?" Well, this "new book smell" is AWESOME, which
is the only good thing about this $30 book. I feel sorry for
anyone that actually pays good money for this. I'm just
fortunate to know people that allowed me to borrow this book
first.
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It's now safe to say that Frank Miller has written more sh*tty
books than actual good ones. :::sigh::: Well, it sure seems that
way lately. I need to revisit Sin City and read something good
of his to get the taste of this one out.
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UPDATE:
I forgot to mention earlier about the books format. Just like
his previous book, 300, this book is also in the widescreen
format. This is what bugged me about 300 and one of the things
that bugged me about Holy Terror. It's like Miller is purposely
trying to hammer it in that he wants to change the status quo.
It's been done countless times before and it's never worked with
me or with the comic book buying public. It's just awkward
reading a comic book like this. To me it also hinders the
artwork itself. With the standard format, when you get a full
shot of a character, the proportions look right. Do the same
thing in a widescreen format and the character looks small
because it has to fit within the reduce space on the page.
My 2 cents.
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Re: Holy Terror
By: ChipRawks Date: July 25, 2011, 12:29 am
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Scheduled to be released on the 10th anniversary of the
September 11 attacks. The book/story is no longer associated
with Batman or DC Comics. I'm eargarly awaiting this book, but
I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't still a little bit bummed
that Batman isn't in this one. Sigh.
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Re: Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 16, 2011, 10:03 am
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Added Holy Terror Review up above.
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Re: Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 16, 2011, 10:05 am
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Added Poll
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Re: Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 16, 2011, 10:06 am
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Added the time it took to read this to....
Oh, wait, I can't.
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Re: Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: Mac Date: October 16, 2011, 4:56 pm
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Wow, rather scathing. That bad huh.
The trailer looked interesting. Then again them bastige
trailers!!!! >:(
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Re: Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 16, 2011, 5:05 pm
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Wow, rather scathing. That bad huh.
The trailer looked interesting. Then again them bastige
trailers!!!! >:(
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After reading the book, I did in fact go back and watch the
trailer to see exactly "how" they sold it to the buying public.
Let's just say a lot of creative editing went into it.
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Re: Holy Terror - Frank Miller
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 17, 2011, 1:44 am
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Added Review UPDATE
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