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Holy Terror
« on: September 29, 2011, 09:39:58 PM »

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The man behind The Dark Knight Returns, 300, Sin City etc. said he wanted to “really piss people off” with Holy Terror and judging by this hyperventilating review by Wired, I’d say he hit his mark and then some.

                 
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Holy Terror, Miller’s long, long, long-awaited statement on 9/11 and counterterrorism, hit comic book stores Wednesday. Longtime Miller watchers have viewed it with apprehension, hoping that his dark views about the source of that national trauma wouldn’t turn the comic into a vulgar, one-dimensional revenge fantasy. They were wrong. It’s even worse than that.

Miller’s Holy Terror is a screed against Islam, completely uninterested in any nuance or empathy toward 1.2 billion people he conflates with a few murderous conspiracy theorists. It’s no accident that it’s being released ten years after 9/11. This comic would be unthinkable during the unity that the U.S. felt after the attack.

Instead, it’s a perfect cultural artifact of this dark period in American life, when the FBI teaches its agents that “mainstream” Islam is indistinguishable from terrorism and a community center near Ground Zero gets labeled a “victory mosque.” Call it the artwork of 9/11 decadence, when all that remains of a horror is a carefully nurtured grievance.
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The DVD should be out in a year.


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Re: Holy Terror
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 10:45:53 PM »
Looks pretty good.


Kinda pricey at $18.80 but might end up being collectable.
In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: Holy Terror
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2011, 07:48:38 AM »
"...Miller’s Holy Terror is a screed against Islam, completely uninterested in any nuance or empathy toward 1.2 billion people he conflates with a few murderous conspiracy theorists..."

Is that what they are, numbnuts? Conspiracy theorists? Really, you have to try hard to miss the mark that badly.
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Re: Holy Terror
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2011, 10:35:41 AM »
And there's that word again: nuance.

"Nuance" seems to have become their favorite catchall for "our inconsistent and mutually exclusive policy positions being portrayed as the mark of cosmopolitan sosphistication".
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