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― Oilyrags, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
"Guys" is worth a look just for its formal invention, though. Plus teh funneee.
Formal invention and occasional funnies are the main draw of the whole of the latter third.
― chap, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah! From Wiki:
The Roach, along with Fleagle McGrew and Dirty Drew McGrew, appeared in a Sim-penned story in the anthology title AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia). With the title-sized speech bubbles "Terror in a Turgid Tool!" and "By my Loins- Betrayed!" it indicated the Roach was homosexual.
Oh, the ironing.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.joblo.com/video/player.php?video=Watchmen_480
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought that was gonna be a trailer... video journal? worth watching? is squirrel police in it?
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26retail.html Key point: "The twist is that Mr. Snyder, known for turning the Spartan comic book series “300” into a global hit movie, is also directing a separate-but-related picture that Warner plans to distribute exclusively on DVD.
The second film, tentatively called “Tales of the Black Freighter,” follows a side “Watchmen” storyline about a shipwreck and will arrive in stores five days after the main movie rolls out in theaters. The DVD will also include a documentary-style film called “Under the Hood” that will delve into the characters’ backstories. "
― treefell, Monday, 26 May 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i always found the black freighter sections rather tedious, don't think i actually read the story until the third time i read the whole thing.
― jeremy waters, Monday, 26 May 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought the black freighter bit was the glue that held the thing together. What I got from the black freighter storyline was that that was also the storyline all the characters were following in the main story - most clearly Veidt, but also Rorschach and the others.
― AlanSmithee, Monday, 26 May 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, sort of. all the plot points converging on this horrible truth.
― jeremy waters, Monday, 26 May 2008 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Namely: raw seagulls are delicious!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 May 2008 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
kind of awesome that they're doing "under the hood"... the bits at the end of each issue were such an essential part of the story as a whole.
― s1ocki, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I did have to coax myself into reading them but I am glad I did bcz they are key and good.
― Abbott, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
hope Veidt's still a dub reggae fan
― latebloomer, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I HOPE IT HAS...KITTY!
p[urple kitty
― Abbott, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I was always wondering, how long was Hollis Mason's book supposed to be? Because his whole life story and the story of the masked heroes seems to have been pretty much covered in the 15 pages included in the comic.
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, I've always wondered if Dreiberg's ornithological article in the later issue is supposed to be allegorical in the same sense the Black Freighter story is, or is it just supposed to illuminate his character?
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe the rest of it is about vintage car repair?
― Abbott, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tuomas, Monday, May 26, 2008 9:35 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
lol!! true
― s1ocki, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG that ornithological article is IMO the most embarrassing part...such purple prose. And that kind of thing would never, ever show up in a peer-reviewed journal.
― Abbott, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, that would be awesome! Anyway, Mason turned out to be a good writer, didn't he? The scene in the beginning of the book with his boss and the fake boobs is just as touching as he imagines it to be.
(xx-post)
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Also he gets the Kitty Geniovese thing totally wrong.
― Abbott, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The ornithological article is kinda weird, and doesn't really give that much of the sort of background information the other articles do, which is why I've thought there might be a deeper level to it. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into the Moore style of writing?
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember reading some Neil Gaiman interview where he says he sorta helped Moore write that article. They'd already become friends back then, and it turned out Moore didn't know too much about birds, so he asked Gaiman for help, and he sent Moore some books on ornithology or something. So maybe it really was just filler, since symmetry required every issue must end with an article, and he hadn't come up with anything important for that issue...
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"I'm into dancehall now."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Moore has his ways with the music references, doesn't he? Has anyone else heard the recorded version of the song ("This Vicious Cabaret") V sings in V For Vendetta (it's not by Moore but some rock singer)? It's kinda disappointing.
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I like it, because I am a big fan of said 'rock singer,' who is David J from Bauhaus/Love and Rockets.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa.
― Abbott, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I love in Watchmen, something like "I don't want to look like Devo."
I'd love to hear a version of the song sang by Moore himself, he as such a great voice.
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
You've all heard this, right?
― chap, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
DUCKS! DUCKS!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tuomas, Monday, May 26, 2008 9:37 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I remember at one point trying really hard to read it allegorically, but not really finding anything there. I think it's just supposed to underline that homie is really, almost sadly into birds.
No dis to orinthology folks, but like Ab said dude's prose is way over the top; makes it almost come off like a coping mechanism, he's desperate for something.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
for birds!
― s1ocki, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
aren't we all
― latebloomer, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2008/mmpic.jpg
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Night Crotch
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
unfortunate
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't the whole point of their old costumes that they're kind of silly? hopefully they'll be smart enough to play it that way.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
which one is squirrel police?
― DG, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks great!
― Allen, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Silhouette's hot.
― chap, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I think it looks like they played it that way.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like they're also going to play up the "footnote" aspect of the original comics with DVD editions.
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the old costumes homemadeness
every time i see this thread i figure it means that watchmen movie is delayed like another year
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The trailer hits on Friday.
― chap, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Erm, really? I thought they'd leave it for the ComicCon panel ...
― Allen, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=22942
― chap, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Ahhhh ... makes sense. Thanks for the tip.
― Allen, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
this is going to be so terrible
just re-read the comics last week, the thing is unfilmable.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- AlanSmithee, Monday, May 26, 2008 8:09 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link
so OTM, totally did not get this until very recently!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link