For many, it’s still considered as one of the most relevant and influential comics ever, and serves as a guideline for the way in which the comic made its transition onto the big screen, particularly in regard to Christopher Nolan’s trilogy. Apart from the deconstruction of the superhero, works like these brought more to the forefront the presence of tormented characters, and subject matter geared to grown-up readers. Along with Alan Moore’s Watchmen, this comic legitimized a new language which had been spreading and consolidating over the previous years. The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, published in 1986, marks a turning point in the history of comics. Saying these very words to himself, a fifty year-old Bruce Wayne decides, once again, to don the Batman cape. And yet, the rain on my chest is a baptism. I should be a mass of aching muscle, broke, spent, unable to move.
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