The 10th anniversary of 9-11 will be an occasion of solemn remembrance for most Americans. There certainly will be memorial observances. The airwaves and news websites will be filled with commentary. The President will mark the occasion in some dignified way.

Then, three days later, comic book readers will replay the events of 9-11 in the pages of Holy Terror, a graphic novel by Frank Miller, the creator of 300 and Sin City and the man whose reanimating vision of Batman informs Christopher Nolan’s celebrated interpretation of the masked hero on film.

In Holy Terror a character known as The Fixer fights terrorists.

Miller conceived the comic some years ago as a story for Batman, but D.C. Comics scrapped the idea, according to the Hollywood Reporter. In the original conception, Batman was to take on the people responsible for the attacks of 9-11. It isn’t clear now if Miller will ignore the reality of U.S. Navy Seals killing Osama bin Laden earlier this year and rewrite history, the way Quentin Tarantino did in Inglourious Basterds.

There also is no word on whether there’re plans to turn the comic into a film.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

Miller spoke about the project in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last year.

“It began as my reaction to 9/11 and it was an extremely angry piece of work,” he said. “As the years have passed by I’ve done movies and I’ve done other things and time has provided some good distance…

“It’s almost done,” he told the Times last July. “I decided partway through that it was not a Batman story. The hero is much closer to Dirty Harry than (to) Batman.”

“The graphic novel is a no-holds-barred action thriller told in Miller’s trademark high-contrast, black-and-white visual style, which seizes the political zeitgeist by the throat and doesn’t let go until the last page,” according to the publisher.

Bob Schreck, Legendary Comics editor-in-chief, called Holy Terror “a fast paced, biting commentary on our uncertain and volatile times, told with some of the most gut-wrenching, iconic images he’s ever produced.”

The comic book will be 120 pages and published in a 10 x 13 format.