Frank Miller is full of praise for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The comics icon took to Instagram to share his feelings about Sony’s latest Tom Holland adventure, calling the film, “The most Ditko movie yet and with my Hand in it for all to celebrate. This fan’s dream come true. Tom Holland is my forever Spider-Man as romantic as he is heroic. Congratulations to Destin and the whole team.”
“The most Ditko movie yet” refers to Steve Ditko, who co-created the Spider-Man character with Stan Lee and drew the early comics. Ditko’s Spider-Man was a more grounded, street-level take on the character, something critics are saying about Brand New Day as well. His reference to his ‘Hand’ in it likely refers to The Hand — a ninja organization that appears in Brand New Day and was created by Miller during his Daredevil run.
Miller, who famously wrote The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One for DC, has sometimes been a tough critic of comic book movies over the years. In 2014, Playboy asked Miller about the “lousy” movie adaptations of Daredevil and Elektra. “When people come out with movies about characters I’ve worked on, I always hate them,” Miller said. “I have my own ideas about what the characters are like. I mean, I can’t watch a Batman movie. I’ve seen pieces of them, but I generally think, No, that’s not him. And I walk out of the theater before it’s over.”
