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Pascal LISE
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Indeed.
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Kevin Hagerman
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Thought balloons.
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Erik Larsen
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Frankly--you might as well be asking, "Why doesn’t Jughead's Joke Book
Supreme get as much praise as Watchmen?" The two don't belong in the
same conversation.
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Kevin Sharp
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Though I may not agree with the extremity of your comment, Erik, I think your point is right on. This thread made me get out the SS TPB (having already re-read Watchmen before the movie).
SS was a cool IDEA, period. In execution, though, they really don't belong in the same conversation.
Edited by Kevin Sharp on 19 March 2009 at 6:49pm
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Brian Miller
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Erik Larsen wrote:
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To you, perhaps. To others, maybe it's better. That's a pretty opinionated fact you're throwing around, there. Sure, it's presented as being more "literal" and "smart", but that doesn't automatically mean it's better.
I like WATCHMEN* better than SS, but I'm not going to go around telling people SS is bad compared to it. There's too much personal taste and preference involved for anyone to make a statement like that.
* In all truthfullness, I'm not a huge fan of either book.
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Ray Brady
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"Frankly--you might as well be asking, "Why doesn’t Jughead's Joke Book
Supreme get as much praise as Watchmen?" The two don't belong in the
same conversation."
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Nonsense. Both are 12 issue limited series about a pastiche super-team
being used to break the conventions of the super-hero genre. There are
clearly as many similarities between the two as there are differences.
Comparing the two is as natural as comparing the Brady Bunch and the
Partridge Family.
You clearly have a favorite, and good for you. But to say that differences in
quality means they can't be compared is just silly.
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Eric Smearman
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Comparing SS to Watchmen is like comparing, say, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (the film w/ Rex Harrison) to The Exorcist.
Not the greatest analogy, to be sure. Just trying to say that beyond opinions of "good" or "bad" they're not really the same thing.
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Ray Brady
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Oh, come on. They're two comic book series about heroes overstepping their
bounds, and they both use imitations of pre-existing heroes to tell their
stories. Of course they're not the same thing, but clearly they're similar
enough to justify a comparison.
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Paul Kimball
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eric's analogy isn't that far off to me. Both films are ones I like as are the 2
books but both are very different.
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Victor Rodgers
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QUOTE:
Frankly--you might as well be asking, "Why doesn’t Jughead's Joke Book
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What a load of shit.
Edited by Victor Rodgers on 19 March 2009 at 8:34pm
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Steve Horn
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For those of you who like Dave Gibbons' work, I highy reccomend Brave and the Bold #200. Gibbons' work on Batman is spot on. Pluse Brave and the Bold 200 had a much better writer than Watchmen did.
I put Dave Gibbons in the same league of artist has JB, Frank Miller, George Perez, and Alan Davis are.
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Martin Redmond
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Jughead's Joke Book Supreme is way better than Watchmen.
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