Frank Miller Will Write DARK KNIGHT IV and Wants a Carrie Kelley Spinoff
It looks like Dark Knight III: The Master Race won’t be the last story in the Frank Miller saga. In a recent interview, he revealed that he will also write Dark Knight IV.
The Master Race is being written by Brian Azzarello, but Miller says that the fourth chapter in the saga will come from his own hand. While talking to Newsarama Miller said:
"I thoroughly applaud what [Brian's] doing. But now that he's doing his, it's now a four-part series, I'm doing the fourth."
Miller went on to explain that he is aware of Azzarello's story, and he told the site that he supported it. However, "he said that after he reads DK3 in full, he intends to create his own fourth chapter.” It’s this fourth chapter that will presumably close out the saga.
Dark Knight III: The Master Race is an eight-part mini-series. The first issue of which will be released on November 25th. I’m curious to see how it turns out. Hopefully, it’s good enough that the fans will even want to see a Dark Knight IV.
During another interview with Comic Book, Miller is asked whether he was surprised by the lasting appeal of Carrie Kelley — Robin from The Dark Knight Returns — and he says that would like to do a mystery-type spinoff series. Here’s his comment:
“Well, to me, she always has had the potential for longevity. I would love to do a series — in fact, I intend to do a series of her and her alone that would be very much like a comic book Nancy Drew series. It would be her detective stories. They would be smaller-sized, they would be designed to that they could be, even though they would be comic books, they would be comic books for children. That’s something I intend to do. Just picture a small figure of Robin on a cover holding a magnifying glass.”
That actually sounds like a great idea! It’s something I know my girls would enjoy reading! I’d like to see it happen.