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fifthfiend:
--- Quote from: dancarter on 14 Jan 2009, 12:40 ---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.
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Alan Moore's work for Image is some of my favorite comics writing ever, but I've always kind of generally been a fan of good dreck.
His Spawn/WildCATs crossover was especially delightful!
As a general scattering of other opinions I will say
- Wanted was quite good until I read it a second time and noticed the overt racism, misogyny and general panderingness of it
- Immortal Iron Fist was good if you like self-contained storytelling due to there's no relevant character history that isn't covered (or wholly invented) in the current comic itself and the first two collected books make for a pretty self-contained story.
- What you should really get is the three trade paperbacks of Annihilation which is basically a big-ass bitchin' war of armageddon in space.
Chesire Cat:
Marvels along with Astro City are my forever top two nominations.
After all Kurt Busiek is basically the Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls of comic book writing. With heaps of Eisner's and Harvey's under his belt.
David_Dovey:
TRANSSSSMETROOOOPOOLITAAANNN
ThePrettyMonster:
Comic book club.
See, my school has an anime club, but I hate anime. So a couple of my friends and I have decided that we need to start a comic book/graphic novel club. However, none of us own enough comics to even bring about a weekly discussion.
Anyways, my question is, what would be some good ones to buy to help us start this thing?
Blue Kitty:
I don't want to sound like a jerk my friend, but this thread is 4 pages long. 4 pages chock full of comics that people recommend and discussion about them.
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