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This is a collage tribute to Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns featuring Lana Lang, and a rebuttal to ignorant accusations that Frank Miller is sexist. Frank Miller made Lana Lang the first female managing editor of the Daily Planet, and rather than typical comic book eye candy, Frank Miller portrays Lana Lang as a full figured mature woman, the strong willed, intelligent Batman supporter in the television news media, echoing Frank Miller's own views on Batman. That's a strong brave female character and role model, rather than merely Superman's childhood girlfriend, a second rate Lois Lane or a helpless damsel in distress.
Lana Lang echoed Frank Miller, as Frank Miller explained in Comics Interview # 31 (1986), "Batman represents the common man. Batman represents the buried rage that has got people quivering these days. The will to resist. To say no to criminals. The ability of people to choose not to be a victim. For instance, Bernard Goetz, in New York, changed the color of New York life for a few weeks. He pulled something up out of what was going on, common to people's emotional states. What he actually did, as far as shooting the four youths, was a crime in itself that would have been very forgettable. But something was implied by it, represented by it. He became a symbol. And with Batman were talking about the epitome of the symbolic character - the will to resist. Batman represents a very powerful specific force that movie-makers attempt to represent with Dirty Harry, Paul Kirsey in Death Wish. I don't think it's necessarily simply a violent power fantasy. Society has made itself impotent to the point where people do not resist evil on a large level, particularly violent crime. New Yorkers carry bribe money to buy off muggers. I think there is a desire right now that the intelligentsia aren't aware of and can't relate to - the desire to take back the power that we've given away as human beings, to say no to criminals."
Lana Lang echoed Frank Miller, as Frank Miller explained in Comics Interview # 31 (1986), "Batman represents the common man. Batman represents the buried rage that has got people quivering these days. The will to resist. To say no to criminals. The ability of people to choose not to be a victim. For instance, Bernard Goetz, in New York, changed the color of New York life for a few weeks. He pulled something up out of what was going on, common to people's emotional states. What he actually did, as far as shooting the four youths, was a crime in itself that would have been very forgettable. But something was implied by it, represented by it. He became a symbol. And with Batman were talking about the epitome of the symbolic character - the will to resist. Batman represents a very powerful specific force that movie-makers attempt to represent with Dirty Harry, Paul Kirsey in Death Wish. I don't think it's necessarily simply a violent power fantasy. Society has made itself impotent to the point where people do not resist evil on a large level, particularly violent crime. New Yorkers carry bribe money to buy off muggers. I think there is a desire right now that the intelligentsia aren't aware of and can't relate to - the desire to take back the power that we've given away as human beings, to say no to criminals."
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