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In 1986, I was graduating from High School and heading to college. I was 18, and hadn't looked at a comic book since I was probably 13.
Across from my college stood a comic book store, where I bought The Dark Knight Returns. I took it back to my dorm and read it cover to cover. I was aghast. I hated it. I pondered it for a few days, and reread it. By the time I finished it, it was the most important comic book I'd ever encountered. No book, ever, so completely subverted the very mythos it used to tell a Batman story.
Then i bought Watchmen, which was great, and the ball was rolling for the genre.
But over the years of my life, as I revisit Dark Knight Returns periodically, I'm always impressed by how much of that books dystopia I now call home. It's an amazing work.
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Across from my college stood a comic book store, where I bought The Dark Knight Returns. I took it back to my dorm and read it cover to cover. I was aghast. I hated it. I pondered it for a few days, and reread it. By the time I finished it, it was the most important comic book I'd ever encountered. No book, ever, so completely subverted the very mythos it used to tell a Batman story.
Then i bought Watchmen, which was great, and the ball was rolling for the genre.
But over the years of my life, as I revisit Dark Knight Returns periodically, I'm always impressed by how much of that books dystopia I now call home. It's an amazing work.
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