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Fascism in Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s “The Dark Knight Returns”

Constructing my syllabus for “Who Watches Superheroes?”, I knew I wanted to include early turns in the superhero genre towards self-reflection by including two seminal works from the mid-1980s: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen and Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s The Dark Knight Returns. It has been a while since I read each of these books, and looking at articles and discussions about The Dark Knight Returns, … Read More Fascism in Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s “The Dark Knight Returns”