This research paper will analyze and focus on the influence of the graphic novel “The Dark Knight Returns” on the society, specifically on the teenagers and/or students’ lives. Graphic novels are known nationwide and worldwide to have an impact on the critical thinking and overall (language) learning of students with their wide (cultural) assortment of images and texts. This comic book variety is also seen as having an impact on the societal and/or cultural awareness of people as its stories are mainly based on the real dangers and instances of (American) life. “The Dark Knight Returns” is considered as a “comics masterpiece” by Frank Miller who “reinvented the legend of the (caped crusader) Batman.” With a much older Bruce Wayne putting on
