The Dark Knight is a success on every level. Batman is a character known well beyond the confines of the comic world (as are his retinue) and so reinventing him, while keeping his limiting core essentials intact, was a huge task.Miller went far beyond the call of duty.
The great Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, the arguably peerless Watchmen) argued that only someone of Miller's stature could have done this. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children's cartoon character into a hero for our times. If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre, then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller-known also for his excellent Sin City series and his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil-is probably the top contender.
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