Sandman138
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Thanks! I might as well just start from the beggining again... It has NEVER taken me this long to get through a graphic novel like this. Oh well. I really liked V for Vendetta more than I'm liking Watchmen so far though. I loved the whole idea of it. The movie was pretty cool too.Sandman138 said:Go back and read the articles, and definatly read the pirate comic sequences. I skipped over them and when I reached the end I wanted to kick myself for it. Watchmen expresses a bunch of ideas about the nature of the hero in different forms from different points of view. They do seem to slam the breaks on when you're interested in just figuring out who-dunnit, but that's not Watchmen's real story, or I should say, the mystery is one level but it cannot simply be solved by finding the "culprit". You start to realize as you get closer and closer to the end how much all these seemingly unrelated archs are actually moving in parrallel towards an inevitable conclusion that can only be reconciled if you can see the story from each vantage point. Trust me, the ending is not nearly as satisfying if you skip over those seeming interuptions. I know it can seem tedious, but it's definatly worth it.
yup. I don't think anyone writes comics denser than moore doesMr. Green said:Thanks! I might as well just start from the beggining again... It has NEVER taken me this long to get through a graphic novel like this. Oh well. I really liked V for Vendetta more than I'm liking Watchmen so far though. I loved the whole idea of it. The movie was pretty cool too.
Xofenroht said:Because that's not what put Neil on the map...as good as it is.
Sandman138 said:True, but neither did Books Of Magic or Stardust and they have been brought up.
But Gaiman has written some of the greatest in comics as well, so he could probably be the greatest too.antonydelfini said:Alan moore is the greater comic book writer and propobly the greatest since he wrote some of the greatest in comics. but neil is better all in all as a writer since he is critically acclaimed not only in the comic medium but in other mediums as well
Harlekin said:But Gaiman has written some of the greatest in comics as well, so he could probably be the greatest too.