Frank Miller's Ronin Paperback
by Frank Miller  (Author), Lynn Varley (Illustrator), John Costanza  (Contributor)

"His brutal yet elegant noir renderings, pulpy yet eloquent scripting, and thoroughly uncompromising attitude make [Frank Miller] one of the most distinctive voices in comics."— ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

RONIN is the acclaimed epic by Frank Miller, the visionary writer/artist of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, 300 and Sin City. In this tale of a legendary warrior, the Ronin, a dishonored, maste rless 13th Century samurai, is mystically given a second chance to avenge his master's death.Suddenly finding himself reborn in a futuristic and corrupt 21st Century New York City, the samurai discovers he has one last chance to regain his honor: he must defeat the reincarnation of his master's killer, the ancient demon Agat. In a time and place foreign and unfathomable to him, the Ronin stands against his greatest enemy with his life and, more importantly, his soul at stake.

Paperback: 302 pages
Publisher: DC Comics

Ronin, Frank Miller’s graphic novel, published in six installments from 1983-1984, is one of Miller’s most unknown projects, and probably one of his best. Of his three comic books I have read in the last month, Ronin, published first, falls between Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, but it lies closer to DKR. This influential comic, which honed and paved the way for not only Miller’s artistry, but also inspired such stories as The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Kill Bill, defies genre and tells a fantastical retelling of the biblical Adam and Eve story in Genesis, where man and woman are created out of an image and tempted to pursue forbidden knowledge by a demon through a masterless-wondering-samurai-turned-ronin tale set in medieval and also a post-apocalyptic, dystopic New York with elements from sci-fi thrown in for good measure. Its like the graphic novel’s Bubba Ho-Tep. At several times while reading, you are going to have to address the book’s weirdness and ask yourself what the hell is going on here.  So, this “weird sci-fi samurai thing Frank Miller did back in the eighties” that “still looks like a bizarre message from the future,” is damn good reading. Collects 1-6. 1st printing.

Miller's story encompasses fantasy, mythology, science-fiction, and even romance. He touches on themes of honor, technology, ethics, racial tensions, racism, corporatism, and warfare. It's all such a brilliant take on the samurai novel that is mutates into something completely unexpected. I will not spoil any of the story so that you will get to experience it all, but Ronin combines the brutal nature of Sin City with the dystopian drama of The Dark Knight Returns. Ronin is a timeless classic with a plethora of heart and intelligence.

Syfy Adapting Frank Miller’s DC Comics Series ‘Ronin,’ Oni Press’ ‘Letter 44’ (Exclusive)
The NBCUniversal-owned cable network will adapt Frank Miller's iconic limited comic as a mini, and the Oni Press title as a scripted drama series.

Syfy is joining the comic book craze.

The NBCUniversal-owned cable network is developing Frank Miller‘s DC Comic series Ronin and Oni Press’ political space drama Letter 44, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Following Darren Aronofsky‘s attempt to remake the samurai drama for the big screen, Syfy will produce DC’s six-issue comic series Ronin as a potential miniseries. From Warner Horizon Television and DC Entertainment, Ronin was written and drawn by Miller (Sin City, 300). The comics, which were published every six weeks between 1983-84, centers on a legendary warrior — the Ronin, a dishonored, masterless 13th century samurai — who is mystically given a second chance to avenge his master’s death. He finds himself suddenly reborn in a futuristic and corrupt 21st century New York where he must defeat ancient demon Agat, the reincarnation of his master’s killer.

Syfy’s takes place eight centuries after a Japanese Ronin samurai failed to protect his master from a demon. He awakens in a futuristic, nihilistic New York in the body of Billy, a medical experiment. Now Billy/Ronin is chasing the demon, which has reawakened. Both parties want control of a sword with magical properties and will stop at nothing to get it back.

A search is under way for a writer and the exact number of episodes in the Syfy miniseries has not yet been determined.

Meanwhile, the Ronin film adaptation has been lingering in development at New Line since 1998. Joby Harold and Chad St. John most recently signed on to pen the script with Gianni Nunnari on board to produce.

For Miller, this would mark the prolific and award-winning comics scribe’s first title to be adapted for TV. His works have been turned into several feature films, including Sin City and its sequel, Daredevil and 300.

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