Frank Miller (Comic Book Legend) Slams the Occupy Movement

Posted by ralph on November 19, 2011

Well, he is responsible for the “Goddamn Batman” after all … Says Frank:

Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:

The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached – is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.

This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.

Wake up, pond scum. America is at war against a ruthless enemy.

Read More: Frank Miller’s Blog

Posted in: Batman, Comic Books, Frank Miller, Occupy Movement, OccupyWallStreet, Politics, Society, WTF

Jin Onikoroshi

some are propaganda of the highest order, but it really depends on the title and author. DC is by far more pro-gov, pro-military, less multi racial (by a lot), and less progressive.

whereas several dozen marvel titles (and marvel’s adult imprints) are pretty subversive. i can’t not mention dc’s vertigo imprint, which published the now infamous “v for vendetta” “sandman” and “books of magic” which are not particularly sympathetic to a right wing point of view.
davakins

has this clown even fired a bb gun in defense of this country….hey Frank, why don’t you join the army?
Harlknaptonity

I’m surprised that there seem to be so few comic fans here considering what a powerful and artful book ’V for Vendetta” was… Not to mention its not-so-subtle revolutionary tones
Rev Russell

Oh, fuck you Frank Miller, you overrated hack. The only halfway decent thing you ever did was write a few comics for someone else’s franchise (batman). All of your “original” work is just a pile of gratuitous violence peppered with cliched chauvinistic characters and subpar story lines. Alan Moore wipes his ass with weak writers like you. HA, a writer, yeah right. I have a master’s degree in literature and creative writing, and you sir, are NO writer. Boycott this asshole, and flood his site with your disgust. Let’s occupy his ignorance, let’s show this motherfucker, and all the other piglets on the corporate teat, that we mean business.
Jin Onikoroshi

Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta, and anarchist undertones permeate all his work.
Jin Onikoroshi

i’ll post it to disinfo if i see it happen.
Mamagriff50

WE hear from a wealthy elite as*! Sounds just like John McCain, He thought everyone in America makes 100,000 a year. Why not open your front door and walk down the street. They’re are no jobs worth having. As*hole.
Vita

So says the proud author of the adolescent pro-military fantasy, 300. Thanks for your input, Frank.
Tinytemper

Didnt you hear? It’s work if you get paid. That’s how it came to be that CEOs work so hard.
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

that is precisely what i meant by growth. I’m sure whatever flowers would be in that metaphor would be beautiful too
http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

I don’t mean growth in the big animal eating the smaller animal to get bigger sense. i mean in the trees growing out of barren land sense
Honu

Some people’s filaments are thinner than you’d expect. Dennis Miller blew his bulb after 9-11 also.
Honu

Some people’s filaments are thinner than you’d expect. Dennis Miller blew his bulb after 9-11 also.
Br0wnb3rry

i’m white and i would agree with him Melissa
Br0wnb3rry

i’m white and i would agree with him Melissa
Br0wnb3rry

i mean i would agree with Melissa, there is white Privilege that most people don’t want to think is there….
Br0wnb3rry

i mean i would agree with Melissa, there is white Privilege that most people don’t want to think is there….
http://www.facebook.com/chinagreenelvis Eric Vinyard

“The Dark Knight Returns” is a piece of shit anyway.
Andrew

CEOs don’t work very hard.
Jin Onikoroshi

“White Male Privilege” is a legitimate feminist/post-colonialist/ethnic studies critique, and is not considered.
Sincityplus

I agree with most comments here. But the truth of all this is Frank Miller needs attention And remember what better way to reignite a fading career than to post comments that cause a stir. People seem to remember villains in society not people who do good. This Occupy movement is a pivotal moment in history. It will most likely be well documented. A well known voice in it good or bad will be remembered over the years. ” Good news never leaves the gate, bad news travels a thousand miles.”

P.S Frank: Next Time, you might not want to go on a blogging fest while you are under the influence of Heavy drinking and drugs .
Sincityplus

And a damn good book it is
Adam

Very true and good point. Both seem like intelligent, talented Millers who completely bought-in to the neo-con worldview after the 9/11 terror attacks because they were scared and didn’t know how to really process 3000 people getting murdered by religious fanatics; hell, I don’t think I’ve completely processed it myself, and it’s been ten years and I didn’t even know anyone who was killed.

To be honest, the Frank Miller thing bugs me more because I’m actually a fan of his stuff (except for “300″), whereas I’ve never actually cared about Dennis Miller’s comedy one way or the other.
Jin Onikoroshi

using emasculating language against non traditional male behaviours does not empower you, nor increase your masculinity.
Jin Onikoroshi

using emasculating language against non traditional male behaviours does not empower you, nor increase your masculinity.
Andrew

But it does take one’s focus off one’s own insecurities.
Threefourdumb

Dear Frank,
You haven’t done anything worthwhile since Dare Devil. Stop relying on sexually assaulted and powerless women to flush out your plot ideas. Or maybe just go away.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DZM2Z2A6N3U6EZSGPO6QPRAM2Q Alan

Frank, Wesley Willis wrote this for you~ “I Whupped Batman’s Ass”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogid9D0rcEI
SARAH

we need govement out of our lives even more than ever!!! Asking the govement to put more controls over someone earning, making or becoming richer is turning this country away from why America is America. But since we are supposed to have free speech, which I begin to wonder about. However I wish these people who want these controls, to realize, once you give this control, others will be taken away without your approval. you need to realize how many of your rights were already taken away{ Since 9/11}
Anonymous

As an artist and designer I have to take issue with that. Just because you sit at a desk doesn’t mean the mental work isn’t every bit as exhausting. I’ve worked factory work and now I’m a desk jockey — most days the desk job leaves me more wrung out. It’s less physically demanding but overall more stressful. When I was working factory I was bone tired at the end of a day but I still had creative power left for art. For some people it’ll be the other way around, sure, but the point is that drawing cartoons is actually pretty hard work for next to no money. Just because it only takes you a few seconds to look at doesn’t mean it only took a few seconds to create.

Not that I agree with a word he’s saying, just I think you’re way way way off base.
Anonymous

Nah, I think most of us comic fans have pretty much stopped paying attention to what Miller’s doing anymore is all so people condemning his hateful little screed is no big deal, particularly considering how many of us are more liberal and are more likely to have seen the screed and be the ones condemning it… And V has nothing to do with Miller anyway.
Anonymous

“White Boy Syndrome” sounds about right!
Anonymous

Let me guess… Your a CEO??? STFU Puss
http://www.facebook.com/elpolloloco52 Josh Adkisson

Learn to spell before you venture so far as cussing. It makes you look less like a fifteen year old.
Anonymous

wooo nice comeback JOSH, wat a gay name by the way! I take it no one has referred to you as a “Puss” before… im glad i could be the first! Google “Puss,” before you tell me i need to learn how to spell -> its for pussies that don’t deserve the “Y.” Don’t steal my sh*t by the way!
Jin Onikoroshi

who calls people “gay” “puss” “pussies”!? it’s 2011, time to grow up and get a clue.
Andrew

Ha, wrong again! He and I are not the same person!

And you don’t even know what word you spelled wrong in your first reply!
Mikhos

Are you daft? Do you not realize what being a white male inherently grants us just by being born like this? And he’s a RICH white male. Think about it before you use the race card.
Frank W

I just concluded that he has been a raving looney all along. And that the various circles of Hell he described throughout his body of work were a sadist’s wank fantasies. That I misinterpreted them as cautionary tales.
Which means, I have a bunch of torrent downloads to delete.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=773433966 Rus Archer

i don’t need a degree to know he only appeals to the 13-year old male brain
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=773433966 Rus Archer

how would anyone hear of al-qaeda before the u.s. government fabricated them as an opponent?
Anonymous

lol… this is a c section not a comp & lit class duff. I also didn’t spell any word wrong, i just used “your” incorrectly. I hope you’re a teacher, because if you are not… YOU GETS NO VAGINA!!!
Anonymous

Grow some balls…. i totally forgot about this anti-bullying BS that is sweeping the nation. HAHAHAHAHAHAH <- I really had to! Anyway, if you can't take a joke then you deserve to kill yourself… #AllHonesty All my life I've been a fat fuck, especially elementary through middle school. I got teased everyday until i learned to stand up for myself. It didn't hurt that i had a basketball hoop in my backyard and a fresh pair of Air Jordans either. I joked back, fought back, and most importantly i learned to ignore bullshit. If kids now-a-days can't even take a Facebook comment without crying to their moms, then we are going to have an even softer generation than we do now.

P.S. This is to the person(s) that flagged my comment.It wasn't even that bad and that is exactly what I am talking about… filtering everything so you wont hurt FEELINGS ( Yes… FEELINGS!!!). The sad part is "you guys" are the 1st to cry about transparency.
Anonymous

Get em Dalton Conley! lol!
Anonymous

Dood…

Who BUYS comic books!?

The 1% of rich elite???

-or-

Spoiled kids and adults from the “Middle/Upper Middle Class” the 1% top are trying to destroy?
Jin Onikoroshi

uh neither…. it’s a pretty universal medium, and has greater appeal amongst working and middle class people. considered ‘low brow.’ although the last decade has seen an explosion in academic work on comics.

in my undergrad days i took 2 entire courses on it. pretty good for the conservative high brow school i attended.

as a grad, comics /graphic fiction is the focus of my minor.

still pretty far from elitist.

i remember when you couldn’t buy manga/manhwa in canada, and i would bring suitcases of it back from singapore. NO one considered it cool then.

the film remakes/franchises have increased their mainstream visibility, and also deeply contributed to the vast range of shitty titles and spin offs of mainstream characters…

still comics have an undeniable alternative appeal, and many titles have deeply subversives undertones.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000200175944 Brian Reinbolt

Yes Frank it’s annoying because they’re mostly hipsters without any real sense of what constitutes anarchy and it will probably be in vain. However amongst the crowd are scattered groups of intelligent people leading awareness of the cause.

Unlike you at least these people know it’s almost impossible to find employment. Thankfully your retirement wasn’t negotiated and sold under your nose allowing various wall street executives to load their pockets. Capitalism has failed but that doesn’t mean it will go away anytime soon. Unfortunately it still fuels the
country and when people purchase your comics they help the machine. How
can they do this without jobs?
Andrew

Learning to ignore bullshit… Yeah, when you’re right, you’re right. I shouldn’t have responded to your comments in the first place.
Anons

Someone’s just pissed Marvel never hired him.
And go figure some rich, ignorant, scum-fuck like him doesn’t even take into consideration the serious job deficit going on.

Have fun taking that government stamped dick in your ass, peon.
Misterfurious

Jin, you’re probably my favorite commenter on this board. Your responses “jive” pretty well with my own outlook and philosophies, but… you don’t have to take any negative comments about comic books and their readers so seriously. Let people think what they think. If it happens to be an ignorant view (like the anti-comics comments) that view will come back to bite that person in the ass some way or another.

Since Andrew brought up the issue of “insecurities,” if you know who you are and are proud of who you are and are SECURE in who you are. Ignorant-but-ultimately-harmless views like Skycake’s shouldn’t really bother you.

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