Fanboy Saturdays @ DP Dot Com just went up to 100 on the Fresh To Def-a-tron. With the news that FRANK MILLER’s ‘Ronin’ mini-series is about to be produced for the big screen we here at the site are preparing for the day that some Warner Brothers exec has the balls to greenlight the Dark Knight Returns for a similar cinematic debut.
FRANK MILLER’s ‘Ronin’ is epic piece of comic art and storytelling. Feudal Japan meets a future apocalypse in New York City. A masterless samurai finds himself transported one thousand years into the future to avenge the death of his master and save the world. Just like all the great dystopian futures we find that biological engineering can’t help itself but to find it’s evil potential. Corporations now control your body and your mind in this bravwe new world. The landscape of ‘BladeRunner’ comes to mind when I look at some of the beautifully rendered splash pages that MILLER inserted into this graphic novel. The question of what defines humanity is the essence of the story and because FRANK MILLER is telling the story means that there will be plenty blood and guts throughout.
If you lived in New York City I would tell you to visit the Forbidden Planet store on Broadway @ 13th Street. All their fanzines and graphic novels are available for perusal and review. As long as I go in there without any money on me I’m fine.
Was the movie Ronin, (from several years ago with DeNiro) at all based on this book?
^ nahh, totally diff
You have to address the range of RONIN and Miller’s grasp, even as the TMNT was a loose riff on Miller’s work. Peep the original series cover layout of the Turtles and put it up against that RONIN logo and steeze.
http://www.thetechnodrome.com/comics/mirage_vol_1/mirage_vol_1_1-3.jpg
^good call on the TMNT cover. I had forgotten all about that.
Ronin is one of those books that I still pick up once every couple of years. The story should mos def translate well to the silver screen.
Best new joint is Midtown Comics on 38th and 7th.