Brian Azzarello, a comics author who is writing the mini-series for the Watchmen characters Rorschach and the Comedian, said he expected an initial wave of resistance because “a lot of comic readers don’t like new things.”
I would say the lack of self-awareness is amazing here, but we are talking about an adult that creates super-hero comics and just signed up to write a watchmen prequel.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a living
― Number None, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah but it's not like they hired in Stephen King and he's all "I have heard of these Watching Men and look forward to reading them" - Azzarello should know this is a pretty poisoned chalice.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm sad that Darwyn Cooke is doing this, most especially because it means yet another year in which Darwyn Cooke is not doing his own comic
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually also bcz it's going to make me less likely to want to read that if he ever does get around to it
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cooke does have another Parker book out soon.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'll just stick w/Morning Glories and Locke & Key. They're the only things I've read in the last year that have really been any good.
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
the parodies of this are going to be much better than the comic, imo
― mh, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Len Wein?! ;askldfj;vauwnpoeiv .qajfasdjahfffffffffuuuuuuuuu
Not that I'm interested in these anyway, but Len fuckin' Wein?! He's terrible!
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
If you want a comic that reads like it could have come out in the 60s he'll be fine.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Parker is not Cooke's character fyi
man this is just insane an odd non-sequitur
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Len Wein + John Higgins = look folks, we have half the original creative team from Watchmen in EVERY ISSUE!
I think both Darwyn Cooke and Len Wein have done some great comics, but I can't see how anyone thought either of them would be a good choice for a Watchmen comic, since they both predate the deconstruction era (Cooke in spirit, Wein in his actual career) that Watchmen kicked in.
Azzarello probably can do the grim & gritty deconstruction thing, but if his Joker mini (which was an awful attempt to take the Heath Ledger "edgy emo Joker" TO THE EXTREME) is anything to judge by, his Watchmen will have all of the grittiness and none of the humanism of Moore's original.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 February 2012 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just watched the Ultimate cut of Watchmen out of curiosity. The Black Frieghter stuff is jarring and not-that-well integrated, but the added other (live-action) material def helps flesh out the universe a bit, makes the whole thing into a more agreeable shape. Also, I'd forgotten just how perfect Patrick Wilson and especially Billy Crudup are in it.
― Simon H., Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
The violence, unfortunate old-age discrepancies (JDM's supposed to be pushing 70?) and awkward dialogue lifting still the principal issues for me. Still a fair sight better (not to mention more fun) than, say, TDKR.
― Simon H., Saturday, 28 July 2012 20:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
did these ever come out then? i was almost going to drag myself to the comics shop for a guilty flip-through but i was afraid my rubbernecking might be mistaken for actual interest.
― big-mammed punisher (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 28 July 2012 21:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Mr. Moore, who has disassociated himself from DC Comics and the industry at large, called the new venture “completely shameless.”
Speaking by telephone from his home in Northampton, England, Mr. Moore said, “I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.”
Love you, Alan.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 28 July 2012 21:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
you know something is heinous when you're worried about how flippng through it will make you look in the eyes of the denizens of a fuckin comic book store.
― big-mammed punisher (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 28 July 2012 21:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
same reason i never picked up Lost Girls
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 July 2012 23:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
^this
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
love to see how you'd "flip through" a box set of three slipcased hardcovers in the shop tbh
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
one displayed, unboxed
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 July 2012 00:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
WHERE THE HECK ARE OUR WATCHMEN?
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:27 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 01:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Nutri Grane (some dude), Monday, 30 July 2012 03:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
That book is why I can't get too worked up over anything DC does with Watchmen.
― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Monday, 30 July 2012 03:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
Good point, Lewis Carroll had spent 1971-1991 repeatedly fucking Moore and his close friends over before he took his revenge, gr8 analogy
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 30 July 2012 03:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
This thread might be of help: those Before Watchmen comics
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 30 July 2012 04:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 30 July 2012 04:40 (9 months ago) Permalink