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The_Bartender:
Sujperman and Watchmen are from totally different time periods, so the difference in character development is understandable.  I agree with the point, but you also have to consider the larger picture.  The more recent versions of Superman, especially since the "reboot" in 1986, show his more "human" side and also make him slightly less powerful.  Superman as written in the '60s and '70s probably could have stopped Doomsday as written in a few minutes.  Superman of the '90s went toe to toe in a 12 rounds slugfest and won but died anyway.


Ahh, Sandman.  The comic book that really got me back into comics, and also showed the American media (well, to some extent) that comics weren't just for kids.  Something the rest of the world was already aware of.  Neil Gaiman's ability to create an entire mythology from the ground up that was consistant and believable still astounds me to this day.  The manner in which he then interwove normal life, ancient gods, the world of fairy & magic and made it all come to a conclusion in a plot line 2000+ years long is nearly indescribable.  The fact that it works best as acomic was even better.  The art never overshadowed the story, but it told you what was happening, and I love that they worked "easter eggs" into almost every book.

Another DC/Vertigo story that I thoroughly recommend is Preacher.  Preacher, however, is not for the squeamish, staunchly religous or conservative types.  It's a quest for God, but in no way similar to what that usually means.

Dazed:

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TheViscount:

--- Quote from: edwinalink on 15 Feb 2009, 04:07 ---I'm so stuck on the book I'm considering getting a tattoo of jons hydrogen atom symbol... though not on my forehead.

and on the jon VS superman idea.

i think what makes supe's so unrelateable is he payed no price for it. yeah his parents and species did. his planet did

but he's just like a brangelina baby. because of "chance" he gets all this awesomeness for free. without paying for it.

where as jon is always paying for it. he gets godlike power... but continually deals with losing his humanity.

you dont get something for nothing. and i love that moore makes that point brutally and repeatedly in the book!

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Jon is complicated. He might A) Listen to the government and kill Superman if ever seen as a threat to America. B) Kill superman if he threatens his existance C) Kill superman if he threatens the existance of the chick he`s banging at the time, complying at least that he still cares about her and the existance of the human race at that exact time D) Move to another planet and make clones of superman, living in his wildest blue-man fantasy.

Oh.. Blue man group and Jon? I sense a merging..

Anyhow, Watchmen is the best graphic novel I`ve ever read. I had to read it three more times before I was completely satisfied, that`s a good thing. Did anyone else just stare at the picture of [spoilers inc] Rorschach crying and screaming `DO IT!` asking Jon to kill him? I did, for a while. And I ust stared at the cover after I finished it for a while as well.

Dunnoe:

--- Quote from: TheViscount ---Oh.. Blue man group and Blue Man
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Fixed.

I feel that Jon can be explain with one of his quotes.


--- Quote ---I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
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He doesn't move a finger to change his destiny (winks at the bartender) because he already knows what's going to happen and believes that he is powerless to stop it. I love the extras from the various media sources of the time, especially The New Frontiersman (sp?). Awesome seeing how we absorb so many angles of the same conflict. I love it.

el Lenador:
i loved the comic, but in my opinion i think it's way over hyped, and alan moore is too pretentious. he has right to be a little pretentious, because he is an amazing writer, but whenever i read something about him i just end up getting pissed.

also, maybe i didn't read into it enough, but it's also my opinion that it gets over analyzed. but i might not have paid enough attention to notice that it needs to be.

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