My rating is a combination of both of my feelings towards the two stories that this set contains. My thoughts of them are found below:

The Dark Knight Returns:

Heroic titans representing two sides of the same American coin, The Dark Knight Returns finds Frank Miller exploring the means and grounds of a path towards a world with peace and justice. Yet, despite their differences in operation, it is evident of the failures rooted in their ideologies, conveying a world incapable of a harmonious middle ground, and yet witnessing both sides scrambling and fighting for a hopeful utopia. While the polarisation of both Clark and Bruce is merely a small fraction of the narrative, it is the centrepiece - not just in its function as a sensationalist climax, but as the root that determines the growth of the future that they are both pacing towards. Miller’s choice to hold the story’s eye on the caped crusader is simply the fact that it is the far more enduring and punishing road. 

The Dark Knight Strikes Again:

Returning to the world that Bruce Wayne had supposedly left behind, author-artist Frank Miller seemed to have his sight for an expansion, and that is exactly what he did. For better or worse, is up to the reader, but for me, it conveyed a large container with very little filling. Yes, Batman is back, but this is because the threat is larger; Superman remains a pawn to the government, but even that seems to have blurred from what was once established. By its end, I never felt I moved an inch closer to Batman, or for the world that he was trying to protect. Even under Frank Miller’s authorship, there was a sense of scatter of the story that is in contrast to what was produced by his predecessor, and the artwork then showed relevancy and depth that supplemented its story. It is as if Miller has extracted and materialised the interiority of the original and allowed it to shape and nudge its plot, which essentially gives little room in return if one chooses to re-explore the events that have unfolded here.