In Netflix’s new fantasy drama Cursed, Katherine Langford is Nimue, known in some legends as the Lady Of The Lake. The Fey summoner who ultimately hands Arthur the sword that cements his role of King, Nimue is a figure most Arthurian legends depict as the woman who just happened to help a great man find his rightful place, rather than the all-powerful creature who basically elevated a regular citizen into a spot of eternal renown.
That angle is what initially drew Cursed author and showrunner Tom Wheeler together with Frank Miller. Together, the two first published Cursed as a YA novel with really great chapter art, and then that story was quickly adapted into the Netflix series, which launches Friday, July 17. The A.V. Club talked to Miller and Wheeler about their partnership, the Lady Of The Lake, and what non-Devil’s Tooth blades they’d choose to wield should the shit really hit the fan some day.
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Known racist and fascist Frank Miller? No thanks, and also fuck you for even putting this on the AVClub dashboard.
I came here to say the same thing, that the site claims to care about racism but then highlights work from Miller is fucking sickening.
Your salty tears are delicious.
Kinda reminds me of when they gave a dedicated review to the new Morrissey album a few months ago, despite rarely doing even one dedicated album review each week.
Being a child of the 80s, I loved Frank Miller’s work. It was the right mix of commentary, dark humor and action.But unfortunately, the man just hasn’t been right since 9/11/2001. That was about the time he was had started The Dark Knight Strikes Again. I still remember the art being different, but the first episode being pretty interesting. Part 2 and 3, though, were totally schizophrenic and should have been a sign that Miller was going bonkers. But then you had “All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder” with the “Goddamn Batman” and Wonder Woman calling a random civilian “sperm bank” for no reason, and that was the big sign he was off the rails. It does not surprise me that Lynn Varley also left him about the same time as “All Star Batman” as you wonder if the mental issues were putting some strain on the family. I have noted that DK III needed Brian Azzarello possibly to temper Miller’s wild ideas.I honestly do feel bad for Miller much in the way that I feel about Kanye West: both have talent, but have let their mental issues take over; with Kanye some would say (arguably) that they are for the better creatively (let’s keep politics out of this one), while for Miller, it is for the worse. I do hope that Miller will recover from whatever is haunting him, but I have no care for anything he has done after 2000, and I think his prognosis is grim for the future.
Hard pass.
Booooo!For starters, I’m not going to take a lesson in #hellyeahfeminism from Frank “whoreswhoreswhores” Miller, no matter how much I enjoyed his output before 9/11 paranoia turned him into a reprehensible nutbar with a thick layer of creamy racism over a chewy nativist center, lightly sprinkled with bits of gay panic. Miller is a goof.For seconds, c’moooon! Arthur wasn’t some nobody turd dispatcher until the Lady came swimming along with Excalibur clenched between her teeth looking for some dude to randomly invest with the power of Avalon. In every myth she appeared in, Arthur had either already proven himself the king by pulling his father’s sword (sometimes named Clarent) from the anvil in the stone, or in some cases, Excalibur itself. He was already kicking ass and waging ethically questionable wars against his neighbors by the time she showed up.
No thanks, fascists aren’t cool. Frank Miller is a hack, and always has been.
AVC is platforming Frank fucking Miller? Y’all should be ashamed of yourselves. That racist, misogynist, fascist hack has been telling us who he is for two decades now. You shouldn’t be helping him.Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to do some serious introspection.
Did someone let the corral doors open or is the School for Special Kids on a digital field trip? Who the heck are these commenters down here? Comic Books are in debt with Frank Miller and there should be statues of him built in every major city in the world.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley was published in 1983, and features Viviane/Nimue as a main character.She was previously reinterpreted as a figure in her own right, as Niniane, by Mary Stewart in The Last Enchantment in 1979.But good on these two men doing the same thing but dumber in 2020 I guess.
I’m just here to pile on. As such,
A review of Frank Miller’s work would be one thing, but you went and interviewed him? The current state of the inside of that man’s head is not worth asking about, plus he has a Twitter account, so what’s the point?
This is some stinky parachute journalism, and I look forward to the 22 page slideshow of black and white portraits of sleeping homeless people that’ll be up on the front page tomorrow.Goddamnit, guys.
Yeah, how much editing did one have to do to get a Frank Miller quote without saying something racist, or calling women whores?
Fuck him and fuck his overhyped contributions to comics.
I didn’t watch the video (I never watch the videos here), but I like to think it was edited like Homer Simpson’s Rock Bottom interview (with the opposite intent):
Before people start crying about others “overreacting” to Frank Miller being an absolute piece of shit, here’s what a far more important and intelligent peer of Miller’s had to say about him:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/06/alan-moore-frank-miller-row