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Chesire Cat:
So you do, "know what I'm sayin'"
lprkn:
For anybody who's interested, CBR is doing a thing called "Re-Reading Watchmen" in which they take retrospective critical look at the series. So far, they're up to Issue #4 (an English professor joins them for that one). Good stuff.
Scandanavian War Machine:
so i just bought V for Vendetta. i haven't started reading it yet because i want to finish what i'm reading right now first.
opinions to follow upon completion.
dancarter:
Re: Watchmen, Alan Moore in gerneral.
While I don't particulairly have a problem with Watchmen, I do think the years have been overly kind to it, much in the same way they have been to Dark Knight. Moore's a smart man, an inventive man. I do think he crammed a ton of info and inventiveness into the story. I do think he expanded upon the method of constructing narrative within the form, but do I think the story is any great shakes? Not particularly. I think he transplanted the tropes, ideas, themes and methodology of one or more forms of litererature and moved them into another. The fact that he was the first to do so in comics makes him a smart man. I think Watchmen kind of falls prey to Moore reminding everyone how damned smart that structure and his writing itself is constantly, which is a problem I have with a lot of his work, save for the dreck he wrote for Image in the nineties.
Scandanavian War Machine:
i just realized that the three graphic novels i've bought since i started this thread have all been Alan Moore (Watchmen, The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta). i didn't even realize i was doing it, but i guess it says something about the guy that everything by him came the most highly recommended and appealed the most to me.
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