I'll take your word for it on the image references; I read the issues in-store, so only the really obvious stuff or things others have scanned and posted tend to stick in my memory.
Watchmen is only of those comics that can inspire me to rant a bit, although I'll try not to. In short, the comic I've always liked, although I've never really agreed with the school of thought that venerates it as the Ultimate!Comic, and the movie I hated. (This is where the rant would typically come in: I felt like the film managed to miss almost all of Moore's points about power usage, along with removing all of his black humor.)
So, I guess if the point of the Twi-sex story has been to lead up to a "is it okay to do something horrible to change the world for the better?" question, ala Watchmen, then I'm afraid I still have questions. In Watchmen I really only had to suspend my disbelief around one insanely rich supervillain pulling Machiavellian strings from his Antarctic fortress. Which, okay. If I can buy it in James Bonds films, I can buy it in Watchmen. But this story brought the universe out to play as a manipulator, without even making it an honest-to-god entity, like you'd see in Doctor Strange, and I feel like there's a missed opportunity there to talk about self-made worlds and authorial fiat that isn't quite covered in the clothes-changing conversation.
Sigh. People really shouldn't reference Watchmen if they're not going to bring the same level of craft to the table.
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Date: 2010-05-07 11:54 pm (UTC)Watchmen is only of those comics that can inspire me to rant a bit, although I'll try not to. In short, the comic I've always liked, although I've never really agreed with the school of thought that venerates it as the Ultimate!Comic, and the movie I hated. (This is where the rant would typically come in: I felt like the film managed to miss almost all of Moore's points about power usage, along with removing all of his black humor.)
So, I guess if the point of the Twi-sex story has been to lead up to a "is it okay to do something horrible to change the world for the better?" question, ala Watchmen, then I'm afraid I still have questions. In Watchmen I really only had to suspend my disbelief around one insanely rich supervillain pulling Machiavellian strings from his Antarctic fortress. Which, okay. If I can buy it in James Bonds films, I can buy it in Watchmen. But this story brought the universe out to play as a manipulator, without even making it an honest-to-god entity, like you'd see in Doctor Strange, and I feel like there's a missed opportunity there to talk about self-made worlds and authorial fiat that isn't quite covered in the clothes-changing conversation.
Sigh. People really shouldn't reference Watchmen if they're not going to bring the same level of craft to the table.