I bought it.
(Ducks)
Now hear me out.
I try to separate the content of a work from the way that that work is executed. So if there's an argument in a work that I disagree with (like I disagree with Frank Miller on things like religion, politics, the colour of the sky, the pros and cons of puppies, et al) but is particularly well-executed, I can still appreciate it.
Holy Terror is not such an argument. It's an incoherent rant disguised as a comic book. Bt it's also not quite as hateful as people are making out. It's about a crazy person, fighting other crazy people. Ideology motivates both of them, but because our "hero" isn't to be taken seriously, his opinions regarding his opponents aren't either.
There are more than a few beautiful pages, for those of us who loved Sin City (nobody draws rain like Frank Miller). But it's painfully clear that at some point, he either a) lost interest, or b) lost interest, and so you have plenty of pages that in any other book would be deemed as unsuitable for publication. When he was doing this for DC, he put some effort into it, and those pages are quite lovely. But about half-way through (around the same time that he claims that he "decided" that it was no longer a Batman story), the quality of the pages starts to deteriorate noticeably, and by the end the pages look like the "rejected sketches" pages at the back of a graphic novel.
It's a work that isn't so much hateful as it is both intellectually and artistically lazy. And for a guy that's brought us the greatness that Miller has, that's a real shame. I don't care is someone disagrees with me....I just want them to disagree with me WELL.
