In the mid-1980s, Frank Miller's classic Batman graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns revolutionized comics with its gritty, noir reinvigoration of the Batman legend. The book hasn't left the graphic-novel bestseller list since its publication. Miller, who has since been working on his...

FOR EVERY BEATING Hollywood has dished out to fanboys over the years, all will soon be forgiven. Sin City, based on Frank Miller's bleak and brutal series of graphic novels, is arriving on the big screen. And it brings with it a pedigree to...

Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, based on Mr. Miller's series of graphic novels, makes it look like we're at the end of Western civilization as we know it. One has only to itemize its simulated atrocities-cannibalism, mutilation, beheadings, torrential bloodbaths, even a comically...

A school district violated a fourth-grader's constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection by refusing to allow her to distribute "personal statement" fliers carrying a religious message, a federal judge has ruled.The Liverpool Central School District in upstate New York based its restrictions on...

In the following essay, Nash explores the use of Arthurian legends in the Batman comic book series, particularly Frank Miller's Batman: Year One and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, theorizing that although the Arthurian mythos is often recognized by modern American culture, most Americans are unfamiliar with the original Arthurian legend.