Ronin

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I don't get the feeling from the people I know, the people I see on the street, that they have something greater than themselves to believe in. Miller wrote the scripts for the science fiction films RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, about a police cyborg. Elektra Lives Again was a fully painted graphic novel written and drawn by Miller and colored by longtime partner Lynn Varley. I would venture to say that Miller may have borrowed some Heinlein books from Chris Claremont, although, for all I know, he may never have read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (the computer who has created a visual image for itself on a televi­sion screen) or “Waldo” (the crippled lead character who uses mechanical appen­dages).

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Fans were keen to see Batsy brought out of hiding and team up with other heroes such as Atom, Flash and Plastic Man in his battle against Lex Luthor and Brainiac.

Miller came into contact with the fictional cyborg once more, writing the comic-book miniseries RoboCop Versus The Terminator, with art by Walter Simonson. Head, an aging hippie who realizes that the ronin is his ticket to security, tells the ronin that he will 'manage' him and take care of him; the ronin passively acquiesces. L'Heureux alleged the pair had repeatedly made, "false, misleading and defamatory statements" about L'Heureux's ownership of the developmental rights of Sin City and Hard Boiled to Skydance Media CEO David Ellison and other Skydance executives and prevented the creation of a film adaptation of Hard Boiled and a TV series based on Sin City.

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In one particularly memorable sequence, TV host Luke Spindle cuts straight from footage of a black youth caught looting who decides to punch the camera (instead of, y’know, looting it) to a discussion with a female cop in the studio, who Spindle then sexually harasses live on air using some of the most cringe-worthy dialog ever put to paper (“beef needle,” anyone? Miller will render whole se­quences, from establishing shot to climax, in these oppressively designed panels, and the effect is alienating. In this issue the great longtime Daredevil artist Gene Colan was succeeded by a new penciller who became a star himself: Frank Miller.In feudal Japan, a young, nameless samurai has sworn to protect his master, Lord Ozaki, from assassins. Yes, he was a shameless borrower, from Gōseki Kojima, Moebius, José Muñoz, and everyone else who caught his fancy.

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The series takes many influences from Manga, and is stated to have been inspired partly by Lone Wolf and Cub. Miller was pleased with the result, leading to him and Rodriguez directing a full-length film, Sin City using Miller's original comics panels as storyboards. Trapped, the ronin mentally reaches out to Casey, who regains consciousness within the rubble and kills a robot.Reborn in a futuristic and corrupt 21st century New York City, the Ronin must defeat the reincarnation of his master's killer, the ancient demon Agat. Finally, we are introduced to young Billy Chalis, an autistic man with no limbs who seems to have telekinetic powers.

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but mostly because it plays around with one of our biggest fears -- that of technology taking over -- and turns it into the stuff of brash, pulpy, adrenalin-fuelled nightmares. What makes this comic so shocking in hindsight is how starkly the politics of Miller’s idealist, activist hero contrast with his own. In a time and place foreign and unfathomable to him, the Ronin stands against his greatest enemy with his life and, more importantly, his soul at stake. I See Them, Too In the beginning Ronin and his master have this exchange in regards to the attacking demons.The Japanese notions of uncompromis­ing honor and responsibility give the impetus to the ronin’s actions, but this imposes on the character a tediously linear line of action. We are now at the heart of Miller’s prob­lems as an artist: his drawing is all tech­nique and no observation. Frank Miller’s 1998 five-issue miniseries “300” is a fantastical account of the Battle of Thermopylae told from the perspective of the warrior-king Leonidas, one of the Spartans’ greatest heroes. But as soon as a title came along, when [ Daredevil signature artist] Gene Colan left Daredevil, I realized it was my secret in to do crime comics with a superhero in them.