In Batman: The Dark Knight returns we have the resetting of the dark hero to reflect the sensitivities of the late 80's. Even in 2010 the issues that are so well laid out in this graphic novel are still relevant today. Frank Miller speaks for more than a generation when he confronts the media and how it reflects the social milieu and how it is manipulated by forces it can not control. This graphic novel speaks of terrorism as acts that go beyond mere criminality but as civilization ending events. It speaks of what is an adequate response to violence and how all means do not justify the desired ends. It lays out the evolution of what it means to be a hero when fear rules the moment. In this graphic novel Frank Miller stands above the shoulders of other great story tellers and surveys the horizon of our destinies to gives us insight to our own fears and trepidations. Frank Miller is a prophet shouting in the wilderness, across decades, to an audience that has faced the terror of government sponsored terrorism and the fear of ultimate annihilation, and still can’t recognize genocide even when satellite opens the curtains to it throughout Africa and other regions of the world, and the civilized world ponders where humanity will end in its voyage to uncertain future. Frank Miller makes the case for the Graphic Novel as Literature and Batman as the hero made by the society he lives in.