"Dark Knight Returns" and "300" creator Frank Miller had this to say about the Occupy Wall Street Movement last year:
"The 'Occupy' movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. 'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America."
While it is uncertain if Miller will choose to celebrate the one-year anniversary of OWS today by perhaps doing a bit of performance art with an empty chair, we can all fantasize about the comic creator's badassery by checking out this Kickstarter project, "Frank Miller Vs. Occupy Wall Street Vs. Zombies":
What I find most interesting about this project is the zombie/protester symbolism -- as I feel many TV shows, books, movies, and comics have been focusing on the symbolism of undead hordes as a subliminal reference to the fear of the disenfranchised rising up and revolting.
Not that the protesters are the
"Our story takes place at the doors of a major corporation. Hundreds of the Occupy Movement on the sidewalks surrounding its corporate headquarters. At the same time down the street is a major comic and sci fi convention. Their key note speaker? None other than Frank Miller himself.
An idealistic young girl, Kerry Kelly, breaks off from the movement to angrily confront Miller and challenge him to back up his harsh and hateful words. Back at the corporate headquarters an untested weaponized gas is used on the movement in an attempt to disperse them - instead it mutates them into a pack of mindless flesh eating zombies. Soon the enraged zombies attack everyone, creating more zombies. It's not long before streets are filled with walking death.
To survive, Miller and his new Occupy companion must team up against a horrific common enemy hell bent on tearing them apart all while trying to stop the corrupt corporation from selling its new found weapon of death to the highest bidder."
The addition of the comic book convention is even more intriguing, as I noted not only a marked affinity for zombies at the major comic cons...but also, in the huddled masses of fans being shuffled to one long line to another, a sort of zombie-like rhythm to the entire thing:
Comic convention: forced march |
Fans are often "rounded up" and cordoned off in little "shanty town" like structures, surrounded by police-tape and barriers, giving the proceedings not only a "zombie" feel, but an OWS one as well:
Comic convention: the "Hall H" shantytown |
And finally, we get synthesis between the fans, the zombies, and OWS:
What will happen at this year's OWS anniversary protests? Will Frank Miller make an appearance? Will Guy Fawkes? We'll find out soon enough!
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