In Frank Miller movies, the blood types all match

After lighting up the Dark Knight at DC Comics and giving Marvel an Elektra complex, hard-boiled writer-

artist Frank Miller turned his attention to movies. With his hyper-stylish eye, Grand Guignol bloodletting and black-and-white morality (and sometimes cinematography), there's no mistaking Miller time.

RoboCop 2 (1990). His film debut, as story writer and co-screenwriter, was criticized as darker and more violent than even its pretty violent predecessor. He toned it down when taking the same writing roles on the PG-13 "RoboCop 3" (1993).

Sin City (2005). Director Robert Rodriguez gave Miller a co-director credit in this phantasmagoric neo-noir based on the writer's initial "Sin City" stories in Dark Horse Comics, later collected as the book "The Hard Goodbye."

300 (2007). Miller stepped aside to let fellow visual stylist Zack Snyder co-write and co-

direct this hit adaptation of Miller's blood-soaked miniseries of Spartan King Leonidas' stand against the Persians at Thermopylae in a fantasy 480 BC.

The Spirit (2008). The "Showgirls" of comic-book movies, this fascinating failure gave first-time solo writer-

director Miller, adapting Will Eisner's classic 1940s masked-detective comic, a free hand.