>>107237069I remember getting unironically, absurdly upset at The Spirit when it came out to theaters.
It took me a long time to get into comics because I saw them as creatively bankrupt and childish (I've since gotten over that shit), but Eisner's work made me realize that you could do beautiful things in the medium. There's great humanity all of Eisner's work; it's not afraid to show the world as mean and gritty, but it also has this unmistakable ray of hope and betterment in so much of it. I even owned the book that had Miller and Eisner interview each other and showed how much Miller respected the guy.
Therefor, when I heard Miller was producing The Spirit movie, I thought, "That's great! Miller has Hollywood connections and will protect his friend's IP."
To this day I don't think Miller gets enough shit for this movie. It would be like Mr. Roger's wife selling her husband's image for beer commercials. The whole thing was a nihilistic joke painted in an LSD-laden Sin City aesthetic. Eisner was your friend and mentor, and this is what you do to him? You fucking animal.
