Review: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 Loses Itself in Its Politics

For years, I’ve thought that Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns has not aged particularly gracefully. Not because of the Reagan stuff, either, just that it’s very much a relic of its time.Both from the point of view of a story where Batman is fixated on Jason Todd’s death to the social issues they grappled with and the ways they grappled with them, it’s all incredibly dated and while it still works as a piece of art, it speaks less and less to a contemporary readership as a piece of entertainment.