Not to belabor a semantic argument, but "we're all angry" is talking about the collective zeitgeist. I don't think that observation, which is 100% accurate, will undermine his ability to write the series.
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DC Unveils Watchmen 'Rorschach' Comic Book Miniseries "most compelling character"
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Watchmen doesn't... really need to be milked and reiterated. It's a singular work and it was completed in the 80s.
But capitalism
Watchmen is nearly 40.
Everything with any semblance of a paying fanbase will be milked until it falls into public domain. So basically, forever.
If we kidnap Moore and play his comic book movie adaptations to him on an endless loop his anger and disgust could power the world. The table flipping alone would be enough to replace all of the windmills in the world.
He doesn't care about this trifling stuff anymore. He is now on a higher plane of existence and magical enlightenment.
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While I would pay to see this...
...this is probably more accurate. Heard an interview with him recently and he seemed pretty okay at this point. Describing advertising as literal magic/incantations/etc. was an interesting perspective lol.
Interesting, still didn't read that. I'm waiting for everything to be collected in one book. But that could be a way to go then.
I used to think Rorschach was cool too
and then I grew up.
Thats...incredible.
and then I grew up.
Obligatory Alan Moore on Rorschach quote
Thats...incredible.
Please...no more licensed Watchmen fanfic...please...it's getting so embarrassing, and I say that as someone who was adoring the TV show until it shat the bed thematically in the last three episodes. (Those first six are still fire though.)
I'm ambivalent about endlessly milking a great standalone book for its iconography instead of having new ideas. But what's worse, as we keep seeing, is that none of these spinoffs have the political bravery or intelligence to truly justify invoking Moore - a writer who's long been savagely critical of capitalism, of imperialism, with immense articulacy - in the first place. It always ends up being a mishmash of fanwank and some tentative stabs at "relevance" without any genuine challenge to the status quo.
I've enjoyed some of King's past comics, but forgive me if I'm not interested in a sequel to a political work by an avowed anarchist from the pen of an ex-CIA officer.
I'm ambivalent about endlessly milking a great standalone book for its iconography instead of having new ideas. But what's worse, as we keep seeing, is that none of these spinoffs have the political bravery or intelligence to truly justify invoking Moore - a writer who's long been savagely critical of capitalism, of imperialism, with immense articulacy - in the first place. It always ends up being a mishmash of fanwank and some tentative stabs at "relevance" without any genuine challenge to the status quo.
I've enjoyed some of King's past comics, but forgive me if I'm not interested in a sequel to a political work by an avowed anarchist from the pen of an ex-CIA officer.
Have you actually read anything Tom King has written? If not, please do yourself a favor and go read his Omega Men series. Cause like, yeah, he's jumped the shark more than a bit lately, but..... he's not a fucking QAnoner, Jesus Christ. Not even close.
I wouldn't count out the possibility of a living Moore also spinning in a grave. The man has some weird hobbies.
I'm sold just on the font used for the cover.
Doomsday Clock was good, TV show was great. We just have to accept that in 2019/2020 exploiting Watchmen ended up being a good idea 😂
Everyone? The TV series represented him with a white supremacist gang!
Doomsday Clock was good, TV show was great. We just have to accept that in 2019/2020 exploiting Watchmen ended up being a good idea 😂
Everyone? The TV series represented him with a white supremacist gang!
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Obligatory Alan Moore on Rorschach quote
Not very cool of Alan to talk about his first behind-closed-doors meeting at WB with Zack Snyder like that
Well then the TV series I haven't watched got it right, I was talking comics, and comics fandom here.
Writing child porn of fairy tale characters with his wife....
While I'm not a big 2 publisher fan, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it's Tom King: he tends to be hit or miss. But on the other hand, the art in the link looks pretty damn good if nothing else. Plus the cover art looks fantastic. King always teams up with good artists.
If King and Fornés knock it out of the park, it could be as good as King's most critically acclaimed stuff. His Batman run wasn't one of them since the quality was all over the place.
If King and Fornés knock it out of the park, it could be as good as King's most critically acclaimed stuff. His Batman run wasn't one of them since the quality was all over the place.
It's weird seeing Watchmen get milked so much all of a sudden, just as I finally read it recently. Has it been like this for a while or is this really a recent phenomenon?
The whole "DAE Rorchach is bad" takes are kinda corny to me. Like it's very reminiscent of the kids in middle school who would tell everyone Disney's Hercules is inaccurate to Greek mythology. Like we get it you understood him and most people didn't.
What's cornier, imo, is that thinking Rorshach is cool or interesting in any way outside of a character study on really shitty people, something HBO's Watchmen seemed to pick up on at least.
if they go down a crypto-fascist q-anon loon path that might actually be interesting. Unfortunately I don't really see that happening.
And even if they do, fascist satire is probably the hardest to pull off since the aesthetics of fascism are most of the appeal. See people swooning over Rorschach to begin with.
And even if they do, fascist satire is probably the hardest to pull off since the aesthetics of fascism are most of the appeal. See people swooning over Rorschach to begin with.