Help me find an old favorite of mine

[MikeR47]

Hi! I remember really being impressed by a dark-type comic, virtually book length, and I'd like to identify it. It was called something like "Heroes" or "Superheroes", and it came out, I recall, at about the same time as Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, which would put it around 1986.

Some details: It had one real superhero, Mr. Jupiter, who could control his own atomic structure or anything else too. There were others of the non-super type: The Chameleon, the Owl, Rohrshach, and more. In the world of the story, something called "Pirate Comics" were very popular, and they were really grim. The book included one such Pirate Comic story. Mr. Jupiter's incredible power has locked the world into an unnatural and unstable political stalemate...

I remember a lot more details, but I expect that's enough if anyone remembers it at all. If anyone could help, thanks.

[InfoBroker]

A perennial classic, collected and constantly availible in trade paperback, soon to be a major motion picture. You are talking about the Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. You are one google away from near complete memory restoration.

-jb the dark ib -

[MikeR47]

Thanks a bunch. Amazing what I remember and what I totally had wrong!

[InfoBroker]

Memories and brain synapses like to do that. Always reconnecting randomly when we neglect them. What's nifty is that you were impressed with a very classic comical book. You have good taste, well, er, in a dark sort of way.

- jb the "realizing that he needs to find his copy and re-read Watchmen, its been awhile" ib -

[Aaron King]

I guess someone should probably step in and say that it is now a major motion picture that will be released very soon.

[The Confessor]

I guess someone should probably step in and say that it is now a major motion picture that will be released very soon.


Although, whether it will do any sort of justice to the Graphic Novel remains to be seen. I, for one, was slightly concerned by the trailer. I just thought the whole tone of the film looked wrong somehow.