In this opinion piece, Rick Moody suggests that the comic-book auteur’s rant against OWS speaks to a greater malaise in the entertainment industry as a whole.
Frank Miller has done Occupy Wall Street a service by reminding us that our allegedly democratic political system, which increases inequality and decreases class mobility, which is mostly interested in keeping the disenfranchised where they are, requires a mindless, propagandistic (or “cryptofascist”) storytelling medium to distract its citizenry. We should be grateful for the reminder.