Nobody made a fuss at all when these came out, but I bought them right up. Quality.
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.
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Alan Moore, who has firmly stated multiple times in the past several years that all comics now are just people being, as he said again here, dependent on the stories he told so long ago. He’s said it about Johns’ Green Lantern run, he’s said it when Marvel wanted to reprint his MiracleMan stuff, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t say it about Snyder’s Swamp Thing series. Alan Moore believes that comics now are all crap, and that the only good comics are ones that he wrote, which is why writers now are “dependent” on his ideas. Read this article for more on that. |
I want to hear Alan Moore whining about this.
Honestly though, it couldn’t have been done a better way than this. It’s not going to tarnish the ending of the book, but instead expand upon origins already seeded. Plus, how awesome are the creative teams? My wallet’s going to be a mad little man this coming summer, I’ll tell you that much.
Watchmen #6, Fearful Symmetry, is aptly named. The entire issue is symmetrical, so to say that if you look at the first page and the last page, they reflect each other. If you look at the second page and second to last page, you will find the same, and so on with each of the pages until you reach the middle of the issue where the center spread reflects itself.
Beautiful.
Just…perfect.
This is the only comic I want all the separate issues of, as opposed to the TPB.
I have the TPB, the hardcover, and the single issues (not to mention the motion comics in two formats). The singles aren’t as expensive as you’d think. I think they ranged from $8-12 each, but I got them for half off.
Watchmen #6, Fearful Symmetry, is aptly named. The entire issue is symmetrical, so to say that if you look at the first page and the last page, they reflect each other. If you look at the second page and second to last page, you will find the same, and so on with each of the pages until you reach the middle of the issue where the center spread reflects itself.
And this is when Rorschach was training his crotch to eat people.
He actually did have a super-power, he was just embarrassed by it.
And here’s a shot from when Rorschach decided he didn’t even need to wear clothes anymore.
Flashing takes too much work, just run around nude!
Little did fans know, but Rorschach was INITIALLY envisioned to be a 70’s flasher.
Luckily the mask was kept just that, and was not extended down to the angry face around his crotch.
I haven’t worn just a t-shirt to school in a long long while, but today I’m really damn tired, and I don’t feel like attempting much more than this.
So it’s the Watchmen shirt for today.
