Watchmen (Updated 05 MAR 09)
05 MAR 09: Ah. Alan Moore is a warlock. From the picture on this post he looks like the reincarnation of Rasputin. Either way he’s put a curse on the movie version of Watchmen..
04 MAR 09: Sounds like Debbie Schlussel considers the movie will be a permanent blot on the culture, to say the least. Don’t sell her short in the area of comics. She’s a collector.
I must say I came across some of the items Debbie mentions in the aggregated volume of Watchmen books I started yesterday. Although I do not quease easily and the comics are self-consciously and ostentatiously “edgy” I would not raise the works to the level of high literature, as some have. The episode I finished was not as depraved as Ms. Schlussel makes the movie out to be, but you could easily see where a team of worm-eaten minds in Hollywood would gleefully enhance the visuals and action to the point of depravity.
03 MAR 09: Al Moore, creator of Watchmen, is immune to the Hollywood disease. He is so immune that he gets his name taken off projects and gives the money to the artists. What a guy.
The film adaptation opens this week and we’ll crash to read the original, our copy of which was misplaced. Son Leo located it today under son Lance’s slab.
Storytelling, Watchmen, graphic novels | bshears March 4, 2009
