@HeerJeet I think that originally they were read as satire but I think that now it's become clear they are very sincere genre works.
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@HeerJeet Can't they be both?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Miller's Sin City is a super bloody homage to Eisner's Spirit. Parody? No. Over the top? Yes.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet To me they were meant to be his sincere take on hard boiled and noir. I read them that way too. Honestly I could only stomach one.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I think they're early examples of this era's post-ironic work.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Miller believes, erroneously, that Spillane was the equal of Hammett & Chandler. That alone requires me to answer "parody." -
@UOJim Unintentional parody, right? Because he's doing Spillane straight up, with little sense of how dumb it is. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Most people consider them somewhere in between, I think. I think that Miller considers them to be authentic, though.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet at the time lots of people (including me, in high school) read it as self-conscious pastiche… but now that Miller's clearly nuts…?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@PartyOfANewType The artwork is fantastic. Miller's best, I think.
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