The 10 Ways Dark Knight Changed Batman Forever!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Frank Miller’s Dark Knight arrived in 1986 garnering universal praise & critical acclaim. It has stood as the most transformative work for the character, permanently altering him from the Caped Crusader to Dark Knight Detective. The Dark Knight informed Batman’s cinematic future and all that followed. Rob shares the 10 major changes introduced in Miller’s visionary tale that affected not only Batman but the comics and entertainment industry at large.

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0:00.0	Today we are discussing who is the greatest Batman visionary creator of all space and time.
0:18.4	And why is his name Frank Miller?
0:21.1	Yep, you guessed it.
0:23.1	It's dark night.
0:24.0	It's on the plate once again due to the overwhelming support for Batman Day.
0:28.1	Yes, he gets his own day.
0:30.6	They celebrate it all over social media, Batman Day.
0:33.9	We look at Frank Miller and we just give it to you as straight as we possibly can.
0:37.2	The 10 ways that he revitalized and rejuvenated and transformed Batman for all time after
0:46.2	on the seminal dark night masterpiece that he put out in 1986.
0:53.5	We go through all of that.
0:55.1	And then a prominent Hollywood producer, was he right when he proposed to me that DC Comics
1:03.5	peaked in 1985, 86, and they've been looking to get back to that place ever since.
1:14.0	Can they ever crawl past watchmen,
1:20.0	Dark Night, Crisis on Infinite Earth? We talk about it today on an all-new Robeservations.
1:47.1	Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am host, Rob Leifeld. I have been making the comic books for 37 years, hired as a young teenage boy. I went on to make my way through the comics industry, making comics like Hawk and Dove, the new mutants. I even did an issue of warlord, X-Force, X-Factor, X-Men,
1:54.7	started Image Comics with my buddies. That turned 30 years this year alone. So I've been publishing, writing, producing, crafting, drawing, inking comics for all these many years,
2:02.7	and that doesn't even count all the years
2:03.9	that I was crafting my way towards the business,
2:07.2	drawing sequential art 15, 16, 17,
2:11.2	all the years prior to me breaking in at 18 years old.
2:15.0	I have been extremely fortunate.
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