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Surgoshan:
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--- Quote from: nobo on 28 Dec 2008, 14:50 ---I think i may be the only person in the world that reads graphic novels that didn't enjoy the watchmen.
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You're not alone. I found it was nowhere near worth the hype it's always gotten. It's not bad, per se, I just really don't think it's all that good either.
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You two apostates needs must guard your tongues! I've encountered it in the last few months and it is all that and a bag of potato chips. The artwork is what really clenches it. I think Moore's success has undermined him, when it comes to expectations, but Gibbons's artwork is so excellent that you can read it a dozen times and still catch new things... He brought so much to the story that I don't think most people realize. From one frame to the next... From one issue to the next... Throughout the entire series... Moore provided an excellent framework and Gibbons made it sing.
nobo:
i just didn't find the story all that enthralling. As for the art, it was dark and dull, I didn't see any edge to it. I'm going to have to go back and read it again because i must be missing something.
Blue Kitty:
I find that multiple read throughs of Watchmen do it justice. That and when I first read it I was sad it had nothing to do with Superman or Batman.
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: nobo on 28 Dec 2008, 22:58 ---i just didn't find the story all that enthralling. As for the art, it was dark and dull, I didn't see any edge to it. I'm going to have to go back and read it again because i must be missing something.
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Look at the transitions. From one scene to the next, there's almost always a connection or symmetry.
0bsessions:
BK, I've always been a proponent of the idea that something is only truly excellent if it can be deemed as such on time through. If I'm not impressed by something the first time, odds are, I'm not going to go out of my way to do it again.
The story, for its time, I could suppose was revolutionary. Nothing like it had been done before, but so much has been done since that it seems almost quaint that this was once regarded as edgy. Alan Moore's done so much better work, Swamp Thing and Killing Joke spring to mind immediately. It doesn't give us any huge insight to the human condition or any major poignant plot points outside of being a competent satire of the super hero genre. Moore works better when he's making a point rather than just trying to make a pastiche of the genre. There's really no moral here outside of "Boy, Nixon was a twat and people running around in spandex sure are silly."
Gibbons' work is nice and all, but it's really rather standard eighties fare for anyone willing to look further into comics of the era.
It's a cool story and all, but it's probably the single most overrated comic book in history, just ahead of Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. It may have been innovative, at the time and it has aged reasonably well, but it's honestly not all that great.
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