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The_Bartender:
I first read Watchmen in serial form not long after the last issue came out.  It's still one of my favorites, along with Miller's Dark Knight Returns and the whole run of Neil Gaiman on Sandman.

There's a parallel here with QC and some other similar web comics.  Watchmen is set in a world ALMOST, but not quite, like our own.  QC obviously fits that description.  It's been done before and will be done again, because as noted above, it lets the reader understand the background story with out having to waste time and space laying it all out.

Alan Moore's other works, especially his run on Swamp Thing, are worth a look.  Moore himself is worth learning a little about.  He has been open about his utter disdain for movie adaptations of his works, and has also been voal about his bitterness towards the comic publishers, DC primarily.  I
m torn between respecting his artistic integrity and disliking him for biting the hand that feeds him.

Any Hellblazer readers here?

TheDozarian:
I've been trying to determine whether or not I agree with the Black Freighter being the inner monologue for Veidt.  I'm starting think that it is and it isn't.  I think it maybe the inner monologue for the Watchmen as a group as opposed to one single member.  The story snakes in and out of different characters arcs and the reason I think its not just Veidt is the ending.

Rorschach, in the end, is who I think the character finally equates to.  His giving up after the atrocity that has been laid upon New York leaves him no choice but to seek refuge the only way he knows he can find solace and reprieve, by dieing.  Veidt, although I'm certain was distressed didn't give up.  He exalted in his deed and the fact that he was right.  He didn't give up at all. 

By the same token, I found the thread resulting in the character strapping the dead bodies to make the raft to be a direct precursor to the abhorrent task Veidt laid out before himself in deciding to destroy half of New York in order to save the rest of the world.  To the character in the Black Freighter, his family was his world and he performed monstrous deeds in order to save them. 

So I don't think that the Black Freighter defines or is defined by any one character, but that it is an amalgamation of all or at least some of the characters of the Watchmen. 

At first, I didn't care for those interruptions but as they continued, I found myself re-reading the beginning to make sure I had a firm grasp on it later.  But anyway you slice it, the comic in it's entirety is a great release that even now stands the test of time. 

Blyss:
I'm aware the the plan works in the story - but does anyone here think about whether or not the idea that a big enough catastrophe would unite the world?

I tend to doubt it, but that's just me.

Anybody else got ideas about it?

Scandanavian War Machine:
depends on the catastrophe, i guess.

SirJuggles:
I don't remember if it was another thread on here, or an interview with Alan Moore I was watching, but there was some discussion about how that whole premise doesn't hold up so well in the wake of 9/11. Sure, there are differences between the tragedies. But we saw how quickly the unity gained from a gigantic tragedy fades. Perhaps something of a more alien nature would have a more unifying effect, but sooner or later human nature gets riled up and hauls off and smacks someone, reason or no.

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