After watching the Watchmen movie trailer about 200 times, I got kinda tired of it and figured I'd go back and read Alan Moore's graphic novel again. A lot of people say it's overrated, but then again, a lot of people (especially white people) are inbred. Watchmen is a 20th Century classic, and there are lots of pictures, so Glenn can read it.RATING: 92%
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I did read this and teach this to college students, who all hated it very much.
I suppose that's a little curt, seeing how I just joke-dissed you in my post.
How did you teach it to them, old pal, and what didn't they like about it?
Well, it was an argument course, and we read it to find different arguments that could made about the text, or the text was making, etc. They didn't like that it was so long and they had to think about things in the book. I think when I said "comics" they thought I meant "Garfield," tops.
I don't think people give Dave Gibbons enough credit for his truly awesome work laying out the panels in Watchmen. I don't know if Crazy Alan was giving him huge amounts of detail, but regardless, he really did a good job with the sequencing of the art.
I agree. The characters' body language is very expressive, too, and the whole thing has a "golden age" feel that is easy to mistake these days for a "1984 dork-ass" one.
Word.
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