building the dark knight

The art style of Frank Miller is quite naive by general comic book standards, with the strength of his writing the main focus of his books. However it is also highly stylised, and this is what i want to capture. The appearance of Batman alters throughout the comic, each foe he faces wares him down and by the end of the book he is hunched over and pained with the mounting injuries he incurs facing the likes of the 'Mutant gang' leader who is half Batman's age and has twice strength and speed in battle.

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The above image is of the action figure which i will be basing my version of the character on.

In the diorama will also be the batcave and it's contents, including the Batmobile, which more closely resembles a bat- tank.

Images scanned from comic book graphic novel- Dark knight returns (Miller, 1986)