Greatest Comic Book Ever.

[Joe Wordsworth]

This may just be a thread for me and Luc. Dunno, yet.

Watchmen, Alan Moore. Best. Comic. Ever.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I've only recently started catching up on Moore with LXG and Swamp Thing.

This has just been added to an Amazon order though, thanks for pointing it out.

Alan Moore is a good writer, as is pretty much every writer that has worked for DC Vertigo.

 

[Remec]

This may just be a thread for me and Luc. Dunno, yet.

Watchmen, Alan Moore. Best. Comic. Ever.

Certainly pretty damn close. I especially like the way it's structured from not just plot point to plot point, but from character to character. From the opening section where Rorschach discovers the identity of the man who hit the sidewalk and begins investigating, all the way through the great little vignettes and sideways glimpses into Moore's superhero world...it's simply phenomenal.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

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Originally posted by Remec
Certainly pretty damn close. I especially like the way it's structured from not just plot point to plot point, but from character to character. From the opening section where Rorschach discovers the identity of the man who hit the sidewalk and begins investigating, all the way through the great little vignettes and sideways glimpses into Moore's superhero world...it's simply phenomenal.

"...American love, like Coke in green glass bottles. They just don't make it anymore"

And, Luc, I can't believe you haven't read Watchmen. Its in the top five, man.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

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"...American love, like Coke in green glass bottles. They just don't make it anymore"

And, Luc, I can't believe you haven't read Watchmen. Its in the top five, man.

I've been busy catching up these last couple of years.

I let much of what was quality in the 90s pass me by and have paid for it.

I have read Black Orchid though.

 

[Remec]

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"...American love, like Coke in green glass bottles. They just don't make it anymore"

And, Luc, I can't believe you haven't read Watchmen. Its in the top five, man.

<think eerie monotone>
"I've just broken this man's little finger. Who killed Edward Blake?"


<g>

I heard a rumor that someone else has supposed reawakened interest in doing a movie based on The Watchmen. I was really hoping, years and years ago, that Terry Gilliam's project might have gotten off the ground.

If a movie was to be made, what filmakers (directors, screenwriters, anything) would you have in mind for it?

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

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Originally posted by Remec
<think eerie monotone>
"I've just broken this man's little finger. Who killed Edward Blake?"


<g>

I heard a rumor that someone else has supposed reawakened interest in doing a movie based on The Watchmen. I was really hoping, years and years ago, that Terry Gilliam's project might have gotten off the ground.

If a movie was to be made, what filmakers (directors, screenwriters, anything) would you have in mind for it?

The Mars scene would be breathtaking.

Directing? Probably Brian Singer, if they'd let him. Between X-Men and The Usual Suspects... he's got the background, y'know?

I wouldn't let Alan Moore screenwrite. He's a little around the bend. I might let Kevin Smith do it, he at least appreciates the book.

 

[Guest]

 

[Remec]

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The Mars scene would be breathtaking.

Directing? Probably Brian Singer, if they'd let him. Between X-Men and The Usual Suspects... he's got the background, y'know?

I wouldn't let Alan Moore screenwrite. He's a little around the bend. I might let Kevin Smith do it, he at least appreciates the book.

<nod>
Brian Michael Bendis and J Michael Straczynski would also be two names I would think of off the top of my head. JMS prolly has more experience and expertise at working in the film medium, but working in comic books is very similar in terms of visualization and image composition so I think Bendis would do well also.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

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Top five ever...

1) Watchmen
2) Dark Knight Returns
3) Sandman
4) Transmetropolitan
5) Kraven's Last Hunt

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Weird War Tales. Narrated by death and each vingette reads like something out of the head of lovecraft. I was never big on super heros, but I loved this series for the spine chilling & macabre.


-Colly

 

[Liar]

Never been very big on comics. But that doesn't mean I don't appriciate quality. When something is good, it's good. I remember reading Sandman and what I think was Watchmen and loving it. But i remember that I kept thinking "I wish someone had gotten this idea and written a killer novel around it."

#L

 

[Boota]

I really enjoyed The Watchmen, but The Preacher is my favorite comic of all time.

 

[Belegon]

I have so lost touch with comics... out of Joe's top five, all I have read was The Dark Knight Returns. classic Frank Miller take on the DC universe.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Ditka era Spiderman and Dr. Strange

 

[rgraham666]

Oh yeah. Watchmen rules.

My favourite piece of dialogue?

Dr. Manhattan "The burnt out villages? The young boys with necklaces of human ears? These are a joke?"

The Comedian: "Hey! I never said it was a good joke!"

 

[sincerely_helene]

Can chicks play too?

Dilbert. (blush.)

(Assuming we are allowed to list non-violent, geeky, girlie-type comics also.)

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Re: Can chicks play too?

Dilbert. (blush.)

(Assuming we are allowed to list non-violent, geeky, girlie-type comics also.)

You read Strangers in Paradise?

 

[English Lady]

Dilbert is cool...as is Garfield and Charlie Brown..but thats about the length and bredth of my knowledge!


I do love this thread...all this passion and geekiness *swoons* it gets me all hot and flustered!

 

[sincerely_helene]

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You read Strangers in Paradise?

I'd be lying to say I had.

My mother handed down one titled: "Casual Day Has Gone Too Far,"

... And since, I have only gotten my hands on two others of the Dilbert releases. The reason that particular title stands out in my mind is because it's the first I had read, and I rolled my eyes when she gave it to me as I recalled skimming through it a few years prior and simply not understanding the humo(u)r. I was shocked to learn that when you grow up, that dork is actually pretty freakin' funny!

 

[sincerely_helene]

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!Removed for accidental double-posting!

 

[oggbashan]

Asterix, particularly Asterix in Britain and the early ones in the series.

The jokes are good in the original French and the translators conveyed the feel not the exact words so that the jokes are good in English too.

Asterix can be enjoyed as a child and the jokes can be enjoyed as an adult as well because of the double-entrendres.

Og

 

[sincerely_helene]

Asterix, particularly Asterix in Britain and the early ones in the series.

The jokes are good in the original French and the translators conveyed the feel not the exact words so that the jokes are good in English too.

Asterix can be enjoyed as a child and the jokes can be enjoyed as an adult as well because of the double-entrendres.

Og

That, and I bet you enjoyed B.C. also!

P.S. Is Hagar the Horrible a part of Asterix, or were they seperate? I recall growing up on both (Gosh, the late 80's are such a blur now.), but I can't remember the name of Asterix's faithful viking sidekick if it wasn't him.

 

[rgraham666]

Obelix and Obelix's faithful dog, Dogmatix were Asterix's sidekicks.

The early Asterix were all howlingly funny.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Obelix and Obelix's faithful dog, Dogmatix were Asterix's sidekicks.

The early Asterix were all howlingly funny.

Thank you, Thank you! That was the one!

Yes, yes. Hagar was part of BC... (I think)

Appreciate the help in solving this odd mystery, rgraham.