I'm all for things that soften the blow for my nerdy hobbies. Walking Dead and the Batman movies have done a lot to bring in comic noobs which helps new books to be produced.
I don't, I read comics because I like comics. The movies and the whole "graphic novel" angle are totally different. Movies, tv shows, and radio adaptions from long ago have had the same goal in mind, but did not need to denigrate their original form.
If it was just 1 monthly book "Before Watchmen" then I'd be a lot more ok with it and probably would have checked it out. The fact that there's so many, most of which seem to be dogshit in quality, is what bothers me. Like a half assed attempt at milking the most dedicated fans of the original series.
And it's different how from everything done with every other series?
I disagree with you about Watchmen as it is both a great story and a masterful use of the medium.
I know it's not a popular opinion, but perhaps it's irrelevant to other comments I made or at least a more interesting line of conversation.
But i agree 100% about 'graphic novels', I hate the term, it's so snobby. Got words and pictures and little balloons? It's a fucking comic, get over yourself. I will literally berate my friends for using the term, it sounds so pathetic. Watchmen is as much of a comic as Peanuts as Fun Home as Youngblood. It's a medium.[/quote]
I agree completely, it was a term used as marketing no doubt, but adopted by legions of self loathing comic book readers and "trendy hipsters."
Also, I don't think people see BW as 'evil' so much as trite and unnecessary. It's like doing a prequel to Citizen Kane, a film where all you need to know about the character's past is in the text itself. There is nothing about Watchmen that needs prequelising. It is its own prequel.
But the entire comic industry has always thrived on trite and unnecessary extensions of comics, I also think that if there wasn't a demand for it by the market, it would have happened. I also use the term evil as sort of a humorous exaggeration as the way some have viewed it (though I wouldn't be shocked if the term evil was used by someone).
Hey Manos since you are getting back into X comics, has anyone recommended Uncanny X-force by Remender ? Also the current Daredevil by Waid is pretty great. Two trade volumes are out for that if I am not mistaken.
No, they haven't. I'll take a look at them.
Because now we know she is still heterossexual in the reboot.
LOL
Hardcore Lois/ Clark fans who hated the reboot. There is also the sound argument that casting WW as love interest to the other big two could diminish her own stories. WW as a character has struggled to carve out on individual identity. Anyway I am not a big Supes or Wondy fan so blah.
In all likelihood it's a stunt that might last 12-18 months and if I had to do it I would do Batman/WW because of precedence in the last DCU.
Ah I see.
