2. "Why does a sentence with 'Frank Miller' and 'Nazis' make you sigh, Jeet?" you may ask.
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3. There are many reasons, having to do with Miller's bludgeoning approach to storytelling. But one point is more subtle.
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4. Miller has a history of trying to link Nazism with groups that were actually persecuted by Nazis.
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5. In one of the Martha Washington books Miller did, we had a bevy of gay Nazis.
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6. Now, there were a few gay Nazis like Ernst Rahm, but they were killed off early by Hitler, and Nazis in general persecuted gays.
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7. In the Spirit movie, evil Nazi character is played by a black man, Samuel L. Jackson as The Octopus
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8. In the current project Miller seems to want to allegorize Nazis with his obsession with jihadi "sleeper cells"
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9. There are many problems with Nazi/jihadi sleeper cells analogy but one is worth emphasizing: sleeper cell model doesn't describe reality
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10. "Sleeper cells" is a kind of crude spy thriller model: evil genius in lair, deep cover agents. Relic of 20th century ideological wars
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11. The actual model groups like ISIS using very different: online incitement aimed at radicalizing marginal elements & destroying grey zone
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12. A graphic novel dealing with radicalization story like in San Bernardino would be interesting but Miller is not the cartoonist to do it
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