http://www.grovel.org.uk/watchmen/ Graphic novel reviews Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.grovel.org.uk/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-49955 kazdrofla Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:46:26 +0000 http://www.grovel.org.uk/wordpress/2006/07/25/watchmen/#comment-49955 As someone familiar with the comic book genre I just can't with good conscience let that opening statement get by. Ever since the first Spider-man comic thousands of readers were introduced to a hero with "human emotions". He faced all kinds of psychological dilemmas and thereby ushered in the era of the troubled crime fighter, creating a drastic break from the norm. The Hulk, who was also created in the early 1960's led anything but a comfortable life and was plagued with situations that left him bordering on severe psychological depression. And if you came into the fold a little latwer than that, you had to recognize the deep psychological quandry that the Silver Surfer ( a character arguably prototypical of Dr. Manhattan) found himself in, struggling with his own inner demons over the paradoxes of humanity. Although this doesn't fully embrace neuroses in the same way Rorschach's does, it seems to me you could better qualify your statement by saying that Moore takes it a step further. As someone familiar with the comic book genre I just can’t with good conscience let that opening statement get by. Ever since the first Spider-man comic thousands of readers were introduced to a hero with “human emotions”. He faced all kinds of psychological dilemmas and thereby ushered in the era of the troubled crime fighter, creating a drastic break from the norm. The Hulk, who was also created in the early 1960′s led anything but a comfortable life and was plagued with situations that left him bordering on severe psychological depression. And if you came into the fold a little latwer than that, you had to recognize the deep psychological quandry that the Silver Surfer ( a character arguably prototypical of Dr. Manhattan) found himself in, struggling with his own inner demons over the paradoxes of humanity. Although this doesn’t fully embrace neuroses in the same way Rorschach’s does, it seems to me you could better qualify your statement by saying that Moore takes it a step further.

]]> http://www.grovel.org.uk/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-47048 Summer Ends (ANNOTATED To DO List) « WQueens7 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:42:03 +0000 http://www.grovel.org.uk/wordpress/2006/07/25/watchmen/#comment-47048 [...] Watchmen: Action and Inaction (Good and Evil) Movie? Annotation? [...] [...] Watchmen: Action and Inaction (Good and Evil) Movie? Annotation? [...]

]]> http://www.grovel.org.uk/watchmen/comment-page-1/#comment-15164 Fynoderee Blog » I admit it Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:08:32 +0000 http://www.grovel.org.uk/wordpress/2006/07/25/watchmen/#comment-15164 [...] and tell me to read some ‘proper literature’…….I tell them to go and read The Watchmen and come back and tell me that it is not one of the finest pieces of literate pop fiction ever [...] [...] and tell me to read some ‘proper literature’…….I tell them to go and read The Watchmen and come back and tell me that it is not one of the finest pieces of literate pop fiction ever [...]

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