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.