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Just Watchmen. Just the Comic.
PapaFrita:
I devoured this book in about two days, and was blown away. One thing was really intrigued about was that Veidt acted on predictions alone. War never broke out during the Watchmen, it just came closer and closer. Would a world war have actually occurred in that world, or would the USSR have crumbled on its own, like in ours? Veidt's actions may have been justified, but probably not necessary.
--- Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 21 Jan 2009, 12:18 ---I lent my copy of this to someone like 6 years ago and never got it back. Same with DKR. I'm not okay with it.
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I lost the Golden Compass this way. :cry:
Blyss:
I have to reread this now. I am STILL so pissed at what happened to Rorschach. Fucking Grrrrrrrrr....
:x
Uber Ritter:
--- Quote from: PapaFrita on 17 Feb 2009, 16:54 ---I devoured this book in about two days, and was blown away. One thing was really intrigued about was that Veidt acted on predictions alone. War never broke out during the Watchmen, it just came closer and closer. Would a world war have actually occurred in that world, or would the USSR have crumbled on its own, like in ours? Veidt's actions may have been justified, but probably not necessary.
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The Soviet Union didn't break up as part of an inevitable failure in the system, it broke up because it's leaders forgot that for an authoritarian state, reform almost always leads to complete dissolution (ask the Romanovs). If Gorbachev hadn't opened the chinks in the USSR's cultural and political armour, it may well still be around.
Of course, this implies that freedom doesn't inevitably triumph over tyranny, that history isn't one long march of progress etc., and these are not happy thoughts for most Americans.
In any event, it is unlikely that any sort of glasnost would have come about in the super-intensified Cold War brought about by the fact that the US possessed a first strike weapon in the form of Dr. Manhattan.
Ozymandias:
Oh, man.
Someone should write a side story to Watchmen, from the Soviet perspective.
That would be an excellent book.
Anyway, I went to Borders today and the place is flooded with Watchmen. There was like, 40 copies on tables as soon as you walk in. It made me reminisce about when I first bought it. I had to go to the hole-in-a-wall comic book store in a strip mall. It was the very last copy, the display copy. I was so happy.
Since then I've bought it two more times (due to loaning it out and never getting it back).
I need to buy Absolute Watchmen sometime.
Dyly:
Most everything that Alan Moore does is gold. I read one of the prints too League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I own V For Vendetta. I got Watchmen but I tried too stay up all night reading it so at half way though I just kinda rushed though it. I should re-read it!
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