You guys should check out this graphic novel. I personally thought it was more Veeky Forums and /ic/ than /co/
The 25' anniversary edition even comes with the full script that has the authors detailed notes and explanations
link somewhat related, its a comic book related channel giving a somewhat pleb rundown of the books contents
youtube.com
i have read that
the art was neat
the joker's font was annoying to read
it's still /co/
>the joker's font was annoying to read
I agree, but did you honestly not enjoy the writing?
I thought it was easily a big notch above the typical cape story, not necessarily in the story content (which it still is) but the writing itself is packed with poetic detail due to the short nature of the book
story itself is a tenfold more interesting than the typical batman vs evil supervillain x scheme
is it better than Pynchon?
>graphic novel
that is stupid name for a comic.
Damn Spiegelman used just to sell more comics because it is "adult"
Graphic novel is usually used as a term for a "comic book" that is confined between the back and end cover, aka has a confined beginning and end inside the book. Watchmen was practically intended to be one but it was broken down into pieces of the story to be sold as a "series" of comics
practically any "comic book" worth their salt is usually a graphic novel rather than any particular issue of a long running series
Try to make your shilling less obvious.
>shilling a book that came out in the 80's
I hope youre genuinely this new and not just this stupid
The 25th anniversary edition came out in the 80's?
Came out years ago, are you really this retarded? Do you not know what shilling is?
The book has broken all sales records, nobody gives a fuck about one sweaty neckbeard waddling over to the store over 20 years later
Hi, user:
fuck off, dude. It is a comic with hard covers.
I respect comics, and call them "graphic novel" is disrepect them.
>Watchmen was practically intended to be one
Moore hates the term and recognizes it as a marketting term to help aim comics books at adults.
Different user here. I actually read this last night.
I thought it was pretty lame. The art was okay, I would have liked it more if it was by Sam Keith. I like Grant Morrison, but I thought the story was a lot of fluff.
meh/10
I meant watchmen was intended to be one book, which is practically what graphic novel means today. Graphic novel was created as a marketing term, its separate now that comics are already perceived as adult
Are you autistic?
Try to make your shilling less obvious.
>now that comics are already perceived as adult
By manchildren.
Take this shit to /co/ where it belongs.
shit this niggas got great taste, but I'm sure everybody in comics agrees with him
One great line:
>People who unironically like superheroes like the flash, superman, iron man, wonder woman etc are literally anime fan tier subhuman manchildren. Its garbage made for children and for some reason they keep ruining actually potential material like Batman with it
You have to love the utter lack of self-awareness.
get this shit to /co/
And disregard for punctuation.
How is this Veeky Forums related? The writing of it is horrible. It's only popular because of the artwork, so it belongs in /co/
What are the best batman-as-detective comics?
ask /co/, that's kind of why the board exists.
>It's only popular because of the artwork
This is accura—
>so it belongs in /co/
Ffs, user.
>all that sperging out over Poe
lmao
Why do comics enthusiasts insist comics are literature, when they know so little about literature?
I like some comics (even some superhero-type stuff from Morrison, Ellis, Mignola, etc.) but they're pretty clearly not literature. It's a different medium. See how Neil Gaiman can write a pretty good comic (Sandman) but his novels are all terrible.
Yep a story about a hot rich guy who protects the private property of the city he has lots of money invested in from people with mental illness is Veeky Forums.
I hope you think youre sounding smart because its just coming off as extremely wannabe high brow and retarded. The premise has never anything to do with the execution of something
And even discounting that youre making it sound more retarded than what it is. The novel in particular (Arkham Asylum) is a very conscious exploration by the writer in particular about why the thing batman does is a double edged sword for bruce wayne: its a psychological horror story.
>Mature comics for mature persons such as myself
>See how Neil Gaiman can write a pretty good comic (Sandman) but his novels are all terrible.
I quite enjoyed Good Omens way back tho I wouldn't parade it as particularly literary or w/e
No idiot im pointing towards the fact that in your op you said that it was Veeky Forums. To me Veeky Forums is a board on 4chab. I then was making the jest that Veeky Forums is a marxist hive where people complain about being virgins and being unattractive and having mental illness. So I was making fun of Veeky Forums and your post, not the foundations that batmen stories are based on. I in fact wish I was batman. I appreciate your passion
Alan Moore is the only comic author that is Veeky Forums fuck off pleb
Neck yourself you stupid fuck
wow. rude tbqh
>I in fact wish I was batman.
I wish I were as rich as Batman. I would also say as smart as Batman except that requires me to admit I am less smart than Batman. The guy has a bunch of fucking issues tho.
Alan Moore is not Veeky Forums
It's too late. Jerusalem is one of the new meme books whether you like it or not.
It's only a meme book if Bloom says it's good
Gonna have to disagree with you there bro.
Has His Bloomitute ejaculated an utterance about Bottom's Dream yet?
Is American Gods bad? I just bought it the other day, not really that familiar with Gaiman.
Voice of the Fire
Jerusalem
ITT:
People who like comics try to discuss a comic with people who would rather give the devil a rimjob than read a comic
What's the point, OP? These spergs would only try to validate their existence by humiliating you on the internet. What's the point
It's like all of Gaiman's stuff after Sandman: merely okay.
His prose is pulp fantasy tier
I don't think so. At least not yet.
Ya, forty years ago.
user, pulp prose = purple prose. And the pulps are long gone. More's the pity, because they at least tried to be entertaining.
No, Gaiman's prose is *airport bland*. It is perfectly neutral and wholly interchangeable with the prose of almost any other novelist whose works line the racks of airport book- and magazine-shops like so many pots of pablum.
>pulp prose = purple prose
No.
Yes.
that book is awful. hated myself for finishing it.
>awful
Worse, it's merely okay.
May I recommend the works of Dave Sim?
His Cerebus started out as a Conan parody,but the later graphic novels went in strange literary circles,with homages to Oscar Wilde,F Scott Fitzgerald,Ernest Hemmingway,and Woody Allen. Sim tried to push the boundries of what could be done with the format of the comic,and is worth exploring.
High Society and Church & State I & II are essential. After that, Sim vanishes up his own ass in order to give us a detailed report on the state of his post-divorce bowel.
His prose is fucking horrendous though. Sim's skill is all visual (and plotting). He's a great writer
Lol no, Cerebus is good through 200 at the very least. Did you only read through the Ascension and then fall for the misogyny meme?
Lol