Watchman information

[Julusnc]

I have always wondered what Charlton Comics chracters do each of the Watchman characters represent?

[Donald M.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Watchmen_characters

And now you know.

Funny how you couldn't Google that yourself.

[The Confessor]

*sigh* Google's killed the art of the message board. :frown:

[The Xenos]

Well, more so that message boards should be for in depth comentary and debate. This was a simple question that could have been easily found.

Now if we want to talk about how we feel about these uses of Charlton characters, that can expand this topic a bit.

While I discovered Rorschach first, I have since become a huge Question fan. It's facscinating to see how Watchmen created a twisted version of him. Meanwhile, about the same time, Denny O'Neil was recreating Ditko's Question in the DCU proper.

[The Xenos]

and also sometimes message boards double post

[Spike-X]

While I discovered Rorschach first, I have since become a huge Question fan. It's facscinating to see how Watchmen created a twisted version of him. Meanwhile, about the same time, Denny O'Neil was recreating Ditko's Question in the DCU proper.

And then they made The Question a lot like Rorschach in the JLU cartoon.

[Paradox]

And Denny made the DC question a LOT more like Rorschach than the Charlton Question ever was (but, yes, JLU even moreso). And that's without considering Ditko's "Mr. A", champion of objectivism. :wink:

[Spike-X]

I've never read Ditko's original Question stories. Is there a collection of some sort available?

[Paradox]

I don't think so. They were mostly short backups in Blue Beetle and elsewhere.

IIRC, it basically read like the Creeper without all the "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Nothing exciting. Pretty standard stuff. Rorschach actually has tons more in common with Ditko's later Mr. A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._A) who looked similarly but was mostly a mouthpiece for Ditko's growing Objectivism (there is only black and white...nothing else, no shades of grey).

[K'Nort]

I've never read Ditko's original Question stories. Is there a collection of some sort available?

http://www.dccomics.com/media/product/6/9/6943_180x270.jpg

Official DC site description (http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=6943)

[Spike-X]

...but was mostly a mouthpiece for Ditko's growing Objectivism...

Wasn't he just? I have one issue of Mr A kicking around somewhere. It is possible to discern traces of actual story in amongst all the clumsy philisophical speechifying, but damn you gotta look hard to find any.

[Spike-X]

http://www.dccomics.com/media/product/6/9/6943_180x270.jpg

Official DC site description (http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=6943)
Cool, I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks!

[Paradox]

K'Nort pulls this one out of her...files:

http://www.dccomics.com/media/product/6/9/6943_180x270.jpg

Official DC site description (http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=6943)

Ooo, nice. Didn't even know that existed. Thanks, K'nort!

[Donald M.]

*sigh* Google's killed the art of the message board. :frown:

If asking random questions, as opposed to trying to provoke discussion, is the art of the message board then it had it coming.

[StoneGold]

*sigh* Google's killed the art of the message board. :frown:

What, you couldn't have figured that out from Yahoo or Alta Vista or any of the old-school search engines?