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I'm guessing they chose 1923 because it is the year after the publication of Ulysses .

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

1923 = the year Time started. Also, Watchmen isn't a novel at all, however good it is. It's a comic.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

IT's kinda wack how it says "ABSOLUTE WATCHMEN" on the spine.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

> though Watchmen itself wasn't originally a novel

Setting aside quibbles about what constitutes a novel, what exactly do you mean here?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I imagine he's referring to it being a maxi-series of 12 comics. I don't think that's an argument against it being a graphic novel, since it was conceived as a single whole work. Lots of novels in the past were serialised at first.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I was going to say...The Count of Monte Cristo, for example (which is my favourite novel, which maybe says something about me, but not what I wished it said about me).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Dickens, yeah.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Ulysses started off as a serial.

WILL BLOOM REMEMBER TO PICK UP HIS HOUSE KEY? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BAR OF SOAP? STAY TUNED...

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

The interiors look gorgeous, but I'm not gonna pay seventy five or whatever bucks for it.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't see what the problem with the original color job is, personally.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I paid $62 for it. It's sitting on my shelf. It's fucking huge. Alas, the slipcover was damaged a bit in transit - little dents here & there. My inner book-anal phreak is still crying. It's fucking huge - I have Klimt & Monet artbooks that are fucking huge, and they're an inch shorter. I flipped through it. It'll get read soon (probably after I finish the book I'm currently reading) (lest I choose to read another non-illustrated type of thing) (or actually do homework).

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Unfortunately, I kinda associate Watchmen w/ a high school whale watch (during a week-long Cape Cod trip) - I brought the TPB w/ me on the boat, and ended up getting seasick. I actually got a little nauseous flipping through the book. I'll need some Dramamine before I crack the spine again.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link

The original color was fine but would've looked weirdly distorted and grainy if you blew it up to Absolute size. The recoloring job is beautiful--basically it looks the same except that the color blending is a little smoother (except for the Black Freighter sequences, which have the dot-matrix effect of old comics and the 64-color palette: nice touch). I am usually very touchy about this kind of retouching-after-the-fact, and I have no complaints at all about this one.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/watchmen-noir-hardcover

now available in black and white

― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link

gotta give dc their due, they're really working hard to squeeze cash out of a 30-year-old property

pissing off alan moore even more is presumably viewed as a side benefit

― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 11:38 (seven years ago) link

TBF, they're milking a lot of their shit in a similar fashion. You'll need to be extra-vigilant about buying DC collections in the future lest you inadvertently pick up the Great Darkness Saga crayon-scribbled variant done by Didio's three-year-old niece.

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link

The deadshittedness of this is underscored by a) the fact that Watchmen isn't meant to be noir and b) it's been 29 years and they still haven't done V For Vendetta in a NON-colourised version

― sad, hombres (sic), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link

it's almost like dc don't have a fucking clue innit

― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link

DC doesn't currently have a clue but they're feverishly engaged in securing the rights to a clue, at which point they plan on radically altering said clue into something no one recognizes or would've ever wanted a clue to resemble and you will ultimately live to regret ever wishing that they would get a clue.

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link

i wonder if i can ever re-read watchmen again though
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:27 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― mh 😏, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link

The whole noir series is stupid IMO.

A new special edition of Watchmen came out last week that packaged each individual issue as a small hardcover inside of a big slipcase. It weighs about 20 pounds.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link

The state of reality these days is such that I have no idea whether that's a joke or yet another sign that the world is all the way in the terlet.

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link

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