Bought a used copy of The Dark Knight Returns
I can’t remember if I read it, I know I seen the animated version.
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Just avoid the three or so sequels Miller wrote.
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Are they horrible or just not as good? Can you recommend Batman Earth One or Court of Owls?
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yup, theyre shite, both in art and story.
but im probably a bit biased as im not a fan of the way miller, especially in his dark knight stories, writes and portrays batman
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Earth One? No, I haven’t heard anything good about it. If you mean Year One (an honest mistake) then yes I can, it is perhaps, the only Miller work I hold in high regard even if it is mostly Mazzuchelli’s art that appeals the most.
Court of Owls is perhaps one of the few Snyder era stories that is also some of his best. The art is good even if DC killed the idea of the books having varied art at the time and the Court are good villains. I never rate it as high as some Batman fans will but it is a good read, I will say that from what I have heard if you liked The Batman then I would recommend you this.
Both, they drop in quality on every measure and they just aren’t all that great in a vacuum. I guess (and if I remember right) Golden Child has Greta Thunberg beat up Darkseid. If you think that is good as a novelty then buy it.
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No, I’m not referering to the Frank Miller comic from 87, but Batman Earth One by Geoff Johns.
I think that will be on my reading list, when I finished the last two Witcher books and the Library edition of the Witcher comics.
Yeah okay, that sounds well. shit.
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Oh well I haven’t heard anything good about it, I personally have never read it so I can’t say anything more about it. I recommend you get Year One if you don’t have it already.
Yeah it makes slightly more sense in context and a little bit more when you grasp the insanely obvious metaphor Miller is using.
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The Dark Knight returns is a good one off Comic Book story by Frank Miller that basically has a unnecessary continuation of the story that being the sequels to it. In my opinion it ultimately ruins what makes TDKR good and ruins the arc Batman/Bruce goes through.
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Finally got my hands on this bad boy. I’ve been looking for a copy of The Punisher for years and even though I was never able to get the PC port (only option was eBay but the prices for the PC version are a bit steep for me), I decided to go for the PS2 version.
I really recommend it if you’re a fan of the character or simply like old 3rd person shooters that are similar to Max Payne with violence cranked up to 11 and then some. It also has a killer soundtrack which usually it plays along with the scream of fear and agony of a dozen or so bad guys.
I also found this in the manual 
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@Silvereyes maybe would like my last purchase too 
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Way past cool! Smell my finger, heh!
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Ginger Snaps 1 and 2 are great Movies, i haven’t seen 3 in a long time, but i remember n9t liking it that much.
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Also what’s interesting about the GB version of R3 is that it has a different plot than the other versions, with Razorbeard returning as the main antagonists.
What is it with Ubi releasing different games for different platforms but with the same name? 
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That was something a lot of companies did, the technical limitations of handhelds back then often required games to have different stories to make up for graphical short falls, avoid taking up space with sound files or to tell a story that isn’t to long as to require being so large it wouldn’t fit.
Oh yeah and sometimes companies didn’t have the time to do it or they just felt like telling a different story thinking that nobody would buy the handheld version.
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Sure, you can have a 2D version of a game that is 3D but you can still have a similar plot to follow. Rayman 3 on the GB feels like a true sequel to Rayman 2 which the normal versions of R3 felt disconnected from it, with no mentions at all.
They did something similar with Splinter Cell: Double Agent on the PS2, weird stuff 
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I believe then that would go back to both what I said about the time and the developers not caring about the supposed richness of the Rayman lore. Hell I am pretty sure I owned the handheld Rayman 3, nine year old me didn’t care about the other games or if the story made sense. I played it till I gave up because it was too hard for my tiny child mind to handle back then.
Tony Hawk games also did something similar. The PS2 games have some of the cutscenes but they are really chopped up while also being compressed files from the PS3 versions and the free roam aspect of Project 8 and Proving Ground is removed along with three of the career path sections, their finales and even some levels.
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Reminds me that apparently the Wii version of Driver San Francisco is tied directly into the plot of Driver 1, and instead of jumping between cars you can shoot from the car as the main gimmick.
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