Calls himself well-read

okay back on the trolley to you had a nice visit but you can't stay here.

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>comic books
how old are you? you can’t be over 12

yeah so I may be wi fi ready and remote controllable but what are you really trying to say here? use your words stop posting random pictures

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I read it a couple times when I was around 14. Recently I caught the second half of the Zack Snyder adaption on television and was surprised to find myself enjoying it. Is Armond White onto something? It was good.

hey I may be a softbodied, free-swimming aquatic animals with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles, but ... what is your point?

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I don't even know how that is physically possible. You comic book nerds are bullies

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>voice of the fire
Suffers from the need to have an epic TWEEST every chapter

I prefer From Hell just because of the shit I learned from it but if we were to talk about the best comic books Watchmen wins, no doubt about it.
>a gloomy story nominally about the Ripper but actually about 19th society London, Masons, occult lore, theology and much more, where even the typography fits the story
vs
>dude porn lmao

>he thinks comics are art

Watchmen is literally the only Graphic Novel you should read. Seriously.

Listen man. I know. I know what you're thinking. I don't even read Non-fiction anymore, so I definitely don't spend any time reading Watchmen, but the graphic novel is absolutely incredible. Even Alan Moore's other work doesn't come close.

I honestly do not think it can be topped.

So yes, if people are reading Watchmen cover to cover like more than two times or something then there is something wrong with them. Like I said, I don't have the time to read it myself, time is precious. But in all honesty, it IS something that you might want to read once. It's not for the gay fucking anime faggots or anything. This book utilizes concepts from Quantum mechanics, existentialism, determinism, theology, mathematics, the nature of existence itself. Everything. The ship they ride on is named after Archimedes. That should tell you something.

Watchmen is literally the only Graphic Novel you should read. Seriously.

Listen man. I know. I know what you're thinking. I don't even read fiction anymore myself, so I definitely don't spend any time re-reading Watchmen, but the graphic novel is absolutely incredible. Even Alan Moore's other work doesn't come close.

I honestly do not think it can be topped.

So yes, if people are reading Watchmen cover to cover like more than two times or something then there is something wrong with them. Like I said, I don't have the time to read it myself, time is precious. But in all honesty, it IS something that you might want to read once. It's not for the gay fucking anime faggots or anything. This book utilizes concepts from Quantum mechanics, existentialism, determinism, theology, mathematics, the nature of existence itself. Everything. The ship they ride on is named after Archimedes. That should tell you something.

Honestly you need a very high IQ to understand watchmen

I like em both, but I preferred From Hell too. The historical depth in graphic novel form got me going. Also loved just the minimalist(?) style

Must be pasta

i know threads like this are retarded bait but it actually makes me lol when i think about all of the retards who unironically think this

nop

I've read a decent amount of comic books. They just aren't a decent way to illustrate things.

Besides, if you read the Watchmen in like 2-3 sittings, it reads like a book anyway. It is incredibly dense, and some pages are just book pages. Like they just have words and nothing else.

He's not entirely off base. Graphic novels are a hybrid of literary and visual arts and is therefore a lesser form of either of them.

the aesthetics are the worst part. i enjoyed reading it, but i thought my eyes would bleed by the time i finished

When you were reading Stoner, I studied The Watchmen. When you were thumbing through Dubliners, I mastered The Watchmen.

>at its best, Watchmen simply imitates books

profound

>Watchmen cover to cover like more than two times or something then there is something wrong with them
Fuck off, the art is so thick and lush a second reading is almost obligatory to fully enjoy it

Watched the movie recently. Reading it now
scribd.com/doc/13749342/Watchmen-comic-full

What's with the pugnacious attitude, lad

From Hell and Watchmen are both good

I'm well aware this is bait but there are probably impressionable souls reading this thread, so I'm just gonna jump on it.

From Hell is the best graphic novel. Period. It's Veeky Forums as Veeky Forums can be. It's such a different category from Watchmen (which created the fucking Zach Snyder Justice League and fucking Heroes).

Alan Moore disowned capeshit but he's fucking proud of From Hell. It's art. It's literature. It's British as fuck. Read it.

>aren't you late for your vasectomy so you don't knock up your fuck pillow?
Wow you sure are lacking in self-awareness if you thought that was a witty insult in any way.

you're right, kind of lost the thread there, not my finest moment. Even the attempt at saving it towards the end is shameful. Forgiveness, please. I guess the Watchmen is really a watermark if you are well read or not.

I understand this thread belongs on /co/ but why do you guys dismiss Watchmen so readily?
What are the criticisms against this middle-brow graphic novel?

It’s just pseudo-intellectual posturing

Grug enjoy to read comic books. Grug even think capeshit can be great art, and that man who no read capeshit book can no be well read

because compared to literature it's very, very lowbrow, but people act like it isn't

Comics really peaked with Aquaman.

comics novice reporting in

this thread makes me want to read both "from hell" and "watchmen"

its because super heroes are gay corporate fascist devices for selling the old european religions to you in castrated form for your obeisance and they also serve as the crudest kind of power fantasies imaginable. its not even remotely a coincidence that super hero pornography and cos playing is so popular as religion declined.

But the Muppets are legitimately good

Super heroes are extremely jewish

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

I like Watchmen but Moore is a fart huffing f a g g o t

>Reading Watchmen
>Not reading Jerusalem

Watchmen is kind of a critique of comic books themselves. Kind of a post-modernist take on comic books in the first place.

For instance, when time-travel is utilized, certain panels will be in places they aren't supposed to be. Rorshach's face is different in every panel, and you're supposed to guess how he is feeling in every panel (it's an ink blot test, obviously a patronage to Hermann Rorshach), there's a feeling of dread at the coming potential war, and news itself, as a medium of expression is critically analyzed as a harbinger of doom.

It's an extremely philosophical little piece of literature, and the overall message you get from it is a very serious one, indeed.

And while I agree serious literature is always better than comic books, if you're going to get one graphic novel, rather than any of Moore's other works, or Maus, or Blankets, or anything, you should get Watchmen.

The very name of Watchmen is inspired by a John F. Kennedy speech he never delivered. That should tell you something.

>Not even best Alan Moore
Tbqh desu, he is the most Veeky Forums comic book writer

thanks user i appreciate the insight

I got it out from the library but never read past the first 2 volumes because I don't like the art style, or capeshit in general. Might try again soon. I prefer confessional auto-bio comics, black comedy and the paper rad/fort thunder type of shit

>it's a "he can't get into a story about human nature and folly unless it has grown men in spandex who shoot fire" episode

>a well crafted half apple, half georgia peach pie is not as good as a whole apple pie or a whole georgia peach pie

>a deck of cards would be better if it was only red

>I appreciate women, but it would be better if they just left us alone

when you have an omnipotent force in Dr. Manhattan like Superman all tension is forfeit. it simply fails to be dramatic.

not when he's casually disinterested and obviously quite the fuckoff

This thread shows how closed minded Veeky Forums can be.

lol self insert porn

the only reason anyone of _______ would come here is to give-a-giggle at the goofballs

fancy a game of golf, gopher?

shit, did I leave my mask at home again

Jerusalem is try hard tripe.

is it try hard because it's tripe, or is it tripe because it's try hard?