Visual Elements of Frank Miller's "Batman The Dark Knight Returns"

This is a comic page taken from the book "The Dark Knight Returns"  written by Frank Miller.  This entire picture makes use of positive and negative space.  Batman himself is all negative space, he is rendered completely black.  The contour lines of batman himself, show his muscles and parts of his costume.  The bat in the foreground has gestural qualities of his cape and  bat wing on the end of his rope.  His eye line runs with the cape well and it makes your eye move.  The curve and directional lines leading down the cape make your eyes travel back into Batman's form.  The background has a decent tonal range.  It ranges from a dark almost grey-blue to a lighter blue.  The words in the corner are grey and yellow.  The grey is easily missed but the yellow draws us in.  Yellow is a complementary color of blue, and since it is so much lighter, it provides a high contrast and sticks out.  I feel like this perspective of his body leads us to believe we are looking slightly up at him, but mostly straight forward.  I believe this is to show his sheer aesthetic strength.  His body is in a position where he could spring into action at any second and even leads the reader to believe that he is actually involved in a battle.   Lastly, I believe the visual text of this entire picture is to display Batman's awesome strength and offer intimidation to any who cross him.