Frank Miller's laatste Batman comic wordt toch geen Batman comic

Holy Terror, Batman! had Frank Miller's laatste Batman verhaal moeten worden, na The Dark Knight Returns en The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Het lijkt er echter op dat het toch geen verhaal gaat worden met de dark knight in de hoofdrol. In een interview met de LA Times laat Miller weten dat hij bijna klaar is met de comic, maar dat het geen DC comic meer is.

Miller;

It's almost done; I should be finished within a month. It's no longer a DC book. I decided partway through it that it was not a Batman story. The hero is much closer to 'Dirty Harry' than Batman. It's a new hero that I've made up that fights Al Qaeda.

Wie we dan wel in de hoofdrol zullen zien?

The character is called The Fixer and he's very much an adventurer who's been essentially searching for a mission," Miller said. "He's been trained as special ops and when his city is attacked all of a sudden all the pieces fall into place and all this training comes into play. He's been out there fighting crime without really having his heart in it -- he does it to keep in shape. He's very different than Batman in that he's not a tortured soul. He's a much more well-adjusted creature even though he happens to shoot 100 people in the course of the story.

Miller zei verder dat hij voormalig DC hoofd, Paul Levitz, al heeft laten waten dat dit geen Batman verhaal is;

Look, this isn't your Batman. I pushed Batman as far as he can go and after a while he stops being Batman. My guy carries a couple of guns and is up against an existential threat. He's not just up against a goofy villain. Ignoring an enemy that's committed to our annihilation is kind of silly, It just seems that chasing the Riddler around seems silly compared to what's going on out there. I've taken Batman as far as he can go.

Dan rest de vraag wie de comic nu uit zal geven. Miller heeft in het verleden al gewerkt met Dark Horse comics, dus er is een grote kans dat de comic daar zal eindigen. Volgens de schrijver nam het project, uit creatief oogpunt, precies op het goede moment vorm aan;

It began as my reaction to 9/11 and it was an extremely angry piece of work and as the years have passed by I've done movies and I've done other things and time has provided some good distance, so it becomes more of a cohesive story as it progresses. The Fixer has also become his own character in a way I've really enjoyed. No one will read this and think, 'Where's Batman?'

Miller was eind jaren '80, samen met onder andere Alan Moore, verantwoordelijk voor de nieuwe duistere richting die superhero comics op gingen. Momenteel is hij nog bezig met de 12-delige comic Xerxes, waar Zack Snyder het scenario al voor het schrijven is. Snyder was eerder verantwoordelijk voor de verfilming van 300, ook een comic van Miller.