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Scandanavian War Machine:
i actually found myself relating more to Jon than anyone else.

Uber Ritter:
My favorite part is the inter-relation of morality and violence, or if you will moral power and physical power.  It's an obvious commentary on superheroes, but it's much bigger than that.  What makes Rorsach compelling as well as repellent is his combination of moral force--the sheer courage and certainty of his convictions--with his penchant for violence and his lack of any normal fear.  He will impose his moral order in the world, through certitude and murder, and both are a form of violence and an assertion of control.  Of course what makes hims so rabid is that he doesn't believe that the world has a moral order beyond his will--morality has been stripped of it's pretensions to be natural, or a way to get along, and simply becomes an assertion of power over the uncaring universe.  But of course this sort of naked morality leaves Rorsach a broken human being.

Naira:
I'm reading the Watchmen now for the first time. I have to say, that I am most intrigued by the character of Dr. Manhattan.

It seems to me that how Dr. Manhattan is treated is much truer to the human condition than how DC and Marvel deal with superheroes.

If that sentence made no sense, let me explain...Superman is LOVED by the people of Metropolis (for the most part), he has a steady girlfriend, friends, and he is a (generally) well adjusted individual. It makes for great fantasy, but I honestly think that the human condition is much less idealistic than that.

*spoilers*
No one is quite comfortable around Dr. Manhattan. He cannot relate to humanity since the accident. The government uses him as an ace-in-the-hole for any international problem and they are drunk due to the proximity of such power.
*spoilers*

I honestly don't think that Superman or any other superhero would be as well adjusted as they are portrayed. Sure, many other comics have covered darker, more human issues in their comics. Drugs, sex, mental problems, retirement, death, etc. But, always...superheroes are a part of the normal fabric of society. They're a dime a dozen.

That also leads me to another point that I liked (so far), that the costumed heroes don't have many costumed villains to fight. It seems obvious...but I never thought about it before. Why the hell would someone dress up and rob banks, when it's so much easier to pull a ponzi scheme like Bernard Madoff?

Blyss:
Just finished reading it...

 :x  Sooo fucking pissed at what happened to Rorshach - though somewhat vindicated by the ending.

I didn't mind the Black Freighter story, mixed in well with my reading of it.

Damned good story either way.

Tom:
The Black Freighter is like the chorus, covering the moral plight of the characters much like "The Mousetrap" in Hamlet.

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