#similar deal with year one where the cops are depicted as hunting the homeless for sport and batman is putting riot cops in the hospital

[artbyblastweave]

The thorny thing about the politics of The Dark Knight Returns is that on the one hand, the comic has what I consider to be a pretty unforgivably brutal "tough on crime" right-wing worldview that treats criminals as little more than targets for righteous vigilante brutality. But on the other hand the comic also correctly identifies the entirety of the Reagan administration as criminals who Batman arbitrarily and unfairly isn't allowed to brutalize.

#similar deal with year one where the cops are depicted as hunting the homeless for sport and batman is putting riot cops in the hospital #Miller's earlier stuff I think contains a very right wing hatred of the right wing #thoughts #meta #batman #behave on this one please #the dark knight returns #TDKR #dc comics