It is very similar to what a lot of people are trying to do to video games today.
This was around the 60's or 50's I believe. Even though the evidence was negligible (can't believe I spelled that right without the aide of spellchecker when committing gave me trouble), Congress went ahead an established the CCA to censor comics and make sure they were influencing the youth. The CCA, for those who don't know, was created with the above mentions psychologist basically stated that the violence in comic books were driving children to be exhibit "unsocial behaviors" that led youth to committing crime. In the introduction, Miller makes reference to some psychologist who wrote a book which would go on to move Congress to creating the Comics Code Authority (I know enough about this already to not need to do any research on who that person was or what his book was titled, and Miller refuses to name it in the book, so I don't know that information, otherwise I would include it here). However, in the actual story, Miller represents the media to be on the side of people who claim that the Batman, who has recently come out of retirement, is having a negative impact on society, and that while he may be driving down crime levels, which have reached an all-time high, he is only continuing the cycle of crime and that his actions will only spawn more criminals (essentially). In this introduction, he is hyper-critical of the media, which I think is something we all should be doing. So in the introduction of this bind-up, Miller talks a lot about what I would call the inspiration for both titles in this book. I didn't even look at the Dark Knight Strikes Back, and aside from a quick flip-through of the last two parts of TDKR, I didn't read the rest of it either.
Also, I only read the first two "books" or issues in this, which would be the first two issues of The Dark Knight Returns. So, by saying this, I want to bring to the attention of anybody reading this review that I may well be biased or ignorant in the areas of which I touch on.
I also am a very leftist person, which I think we all know Frank Miller is not. I did not grow up in the 80's, hell, I was barely alive for the 90's and don't remember most of the 2000's, so I don't have any personal experience with the time period in which this was written and influenced by. I want to start this review by saying the following.
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