IF YOU INTEND TO DIE, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING

Oh boy, y'all are in for a ride. This is one heck of a story.

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How many comics can you think of that you have seen this exact sequence in?

I can think of 2 other than this page.

>>82684979
I picked this up from my friends dad when he was giving away all his comics. I should really read it... that guy is dead now.

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Watch Out

>>82685245
I know it's in Liefeld's X-Force

I would love to see DC animation adapt this, but sadly they aren't interested in adapting things not involving capes.

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>>82685375
Yep and the other one I know is a Darth Vader comic

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>>82685382
Why?

>>82685245
Not comics but Jin uses a similar move to beat the last boss in Samurai Champloo

>>82685405
>Stylish western produced action comic with Samurais in the future

Can't imagine why anyone would want to see something like that

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>>82685433
Well I mean Samurai Jack already exists, and animation isn't really any good at capturing what makes Comics effective.

>>82685433
An animated version loses Frank Miller's art. Why would you want that? It's like Dark Knight Returns, All Star Superman, or New Frontier. Why take away the best part?

>>82685459
Well it was inspired by Ronin after all. And i get what you're saying. I'd just love to see DC adapt something that doesn't involve the fucking Justice League in some way is all.

>>82685382
the illustration style and coloring are so specific
it'd be a shame to see it smoothed into looking like every other DC animation with their house style

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>>82684979
Frank Miller is literally the cancer ruining the DC cinematic universe and I currently have nothing but contempt for his name.
pitoo.

>>82685510
They should just focus on more original stuff with their properties

>>82685529
Feel free to fuck off then. Some of us are not Millenial shit birds and remember when Frank made great comics like this.

>>82685529
>cinematic universe
boo fucking hoo

>>82685529
Delete this.

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>>82685577
Also its not like writing and drawing one of the most popular best selling comics DC will have ever put out that will go onto effect their decisions when making films 30 years later is his fault.

>>82684979

As with all Millers work, I can appreciate its technicaly, objectively, good, I just cant stand any aspect of it

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>Ronin was a process of liberation," says Miller. "I went from the sort of material that I'd been trained to do, that everybody was doing, toward developing a new direction for comics."

>Miller goes on to say, "It not only taught me a great deal, but it broke down walls for me, it showed me that there's endless different things that I can do with comics." That's not just hyperbole on Miller's part. "Ronin" shows him experimenting with storytelling solutions that he'd never used on any of his earlier work, and yet as unorthodox as some of his pages must have looked at the time, especially to audiences unfamiliar with influences like Moebius and Hugo Pratt, he always worked in the service of the story. But style was certainly foremost on his mind: "I'm very, very proud that I was able to take on so many new problems and find my own solutions. Dealing with a real void," says Miller. "So little has been done with comics, in the whole time they've been around that to push it like that made me feel like I was starting my career, I was starting my explorations of the form." He continues, "One of the things that 'Ronin' did was to dynamite my own and anybody else's expectations of me. And now, I feel like playing around a lot. It's very weird, standing at the beginning of a possible history not at the end of one, because there's nothing left of the road behind me."

The most interesting is jumping from this to DKR and seeing the fully formed style that can only be called Frank Miller

>>82685693
I think Miller's only demand for Ronin that DC didn't meet was to have a spine instead of staples, which DKR of course had

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>>82685741
They changed the whole printing process for it because the colors were not coming out correctly on the standard stuff.

>>82685741
Oddly enough I think I have a spined copy.

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Perfection

>>82684979

Love this book.

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Thankfully this book has a lot of spreads in it or I don't think it would fit.

>>82685156
Kid kind of looks like Daigoro.

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This sequence is incredible and continually blows me away.

>>82685624
>>82685635
>>82685643

Classic use of the grid here.

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This PAGE

>>82685752
I always thought the colors felt alien and weird, but that's almost certainly deliberate. I wonder how closely the colors we ended up with reflect his actual vision.

>>82685802
I really like this setup here. He chooses NOT to show the action itself, but he emphasizes everything else. The gun, the position, the frame placement, the racial slur.

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I had hopes that this would fit in one thread but that does not seem to be the case.

>>82686974
Finished Here

>>82686983

>>82686319
>Mr. Koike

Frank you cheeky fuck.

>>82686438
I should clip that bottom right panel.

80s Miller was probably the best writer/artist that comics has ever seen.

>>82688515
Nah, even just his influences were better than him.

>>82688639
Not even close, homo.

Thanks, OP.

bumping for others.