I always suspected that Frank Miller was a fascist.

Frank Miller, the comic book writer/artist behind a totally rad, ninja-filled run of "Daredevil: The Man Without Fear" that I was really into when I was 11 years old, has weighed in on the Occupy Wall Street movement in a recently posted blog.
"'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness," the creator and co-director of "Sin City" rants in 14-point type.
"This is no popular uprising," he continues, "this is garbage."
He goes on to call the occupiers "pond scum," before cautioning them about America's "war against a ruthless enemy," i.e. "al-Qaeda and Islamicism."
I think that Frank Miller believes that ninjas can resurrect Osama bin Laden just like they tried to do with Elektra back in the "Elektra Saga". In other words, Frank is getting high on his own supply.
Miller closes his little diatribe by telling the occupiers to "go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft (sic)."
Miller's politics shouldn't come as a shock. Anyone who's read "300" with its dehumanized Persians and love of authoritarian Sparta could've guessed at them. What I still find surprising though is that Miller uses the same stereotypes to deride the Occupy movement that are so often employed to dismiss his own fan base. But this may be why Miller finds a genuine youth movement so terrifying.
The last thing that Frank Miller wants is for those young people playing "Lords of Warcraft" in their mother's basements to become part of an actual democratic movement that has them getting jabbed in the ribs by cops in Berkeley or taking tear gas canisters to the head in Oakland (as in the case of Iraq War vet and Luke Skywalker lookalike Scott Olsen). Participating in life instead of living through digitally colored fantasies of samurai hookers, dark knights and 300 Spartans is bad for Miller's bottom line.
Bob Calhoun is the author of the bestselling punk-wrestling memoir, Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling, which is available through Amazon.com. You can follow him on Twitter @bob_calhoun.


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@old new lefty I've been wondering that myself. And oddly enough, it's under a supposedly liberal president that fascism has gotten so acceptable.
He has the same appeal that Ted Nugent did, and targets approximately the same age group.
http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n515/adamo22001/frank_for_vendetta.jpg
2. A picture is worth a thousand words especially when you have trouble reading.
3. Sparta like you've never seen it before ever! Free showing at the B&D Ball...chains and whips supplied. Please supply your own leathers.
Also, while I'm here; You know what makes Ted Nugent way cooler than Frank Miller? The fucking tone man! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYOV8uu17t0
What do you mean, "suddenly"?
who
what
where
why
when
with fear
in my jug
Plus, who cares?
I like comix, but Miller is full of crap.
@hontonoshijin: a well respected comic book artist that I don't feel right in naming once told me that Frank Miller comes from a small town in Vermont. "The first time he came to New York to show his portfolio to Marvel, he got mugged coming off the bus," the artist recalled. "He's been writing vigilante comics ever since."
Rated
I sent him a tweet noting the hole in his biography regarding military service. Another bigmouth, hypocritical chickenhawk.