by Daba18049 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
Via: The Fader |
by B/|nGerKat 3751 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
I've own the graphic novel for about a year now. I should really read this before the movie comes out. |
by Al4395 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
oh snap... what in the hell is that?
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by B/|nGerKat 3751 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
March 2009
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by narfish49 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
I saw Dark Knight last night and this was one of the previews. Looked f-ing FANTASTIC on the big screen. Can't wait for it.
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by Mike1193 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
Whats this about? Ive never heard of it
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by Al4395 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
Just spent a good part of the day reading up on it. Looks promising. |
by B/|nGerKat 3751 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
To Mike: I would say that a high majority of comic/graphic novel readers would say that Watchmen is the greatest graphic novel ever read.
The expectations for this movie are going to be huge. |
by Mike1193 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
Graphic novel means comic book right? I don't mean that in a condescending way... I just don't know.
I just seem to recall them referencing this in the O.C. |
by pill729 Posts |
3 years, 7 months ago
Never heard of Watchmen before, but this looks dope!
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by narfish49 Posts |
3 years, 6 months ago
To call Watchmen a "graphic novel" isn't quite fair...it was originally published as a twelve-issue comic book series in the mid-80s and only later collected. But yeah alongside the Sandman series, it's basically the closest that superhero comics have come to authentic literature. Really dark, richly symbolic and layered stuff, and the work that moved Alan Moore from a talented up-and-comer to a true legend in comic book writing.
And Mike: yes, graphic novel refers to comic books, but it is a type of comic book that is usually meant to stand alone, as opposed to a collected edition of a comic series originally issued in installments, which is usually called a "trade paperback."
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by Mike1193 Posts |
3 years, 6 months ago
Got it.
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by B/|nGerKat 3751 Posts |
3 years, 6 months ago
Narfish, that's how they all become graphic novels, though.
A series of comics spread out through a number of months following one story that are later collected into one are graphic novels.
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by narfish49 Posts |
3 years, 6 months ago
It's semantics. There are plenty of longer-form comic books that were intended as stand alone graphic novels and never published as individual issues, but yeah I guess the large majority of what we consider graphic novels are just collected versions of longer stories. Though there has to be some kind of dividing line - like, would you consider a six issue story-arc drawn from somewhere in the Uncanny X-Men chronology a graphic novel? I wouldn't. That's a trade paperback to me.
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by Mike1193 Posts |
3 years, 6 months ago
Banger...Narfish... FIGHT TO THE DEATH!
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