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Honestly, yes. I think they should have left the decision in the hands of their retail partners. If a store was uncomfortable selling the content of the issue then DC could, quite generously,...

No, what I'm complaining about is their unilateral decision to delay the release of a product that they'd solicited, taken orders for, shipped, printed, and invoiced. They took the decision out of...

DC solicits the issue and takes orders. No problem.

Retailers commit their final binding orders, with an up to date ship date and content explanation, 3 weeks ago. No problem.

DC prints and...

Doesn't all of that sorta, kinda, possibly make the whole thing exciting though?

What CAN be done with the characters from Watchmen? I don't know but I'm interested in finding out if Darwyn Cooke...

Interesting. I have a suspicion Morrison will use Lex in much the same way that he used the Joker in his Batman run.

Year One is a great story, carefully told, and beautifully illustrated. It's easy to love and unlikely to be offensive to just about any reasonably open minded reader.*

But DKR is a much richer...

It's quotes like the above that tell us more about Doug's reading habits than the book itself.

And that's not to say that the book didn't deserve 4.5 stars. (I can't say; I didn't read it. But...

You should find a copy of the Talking With Gods documentary. It's really entertaining and provides a whole lot of personal context for Morrison's creator owned work like Invisibles, Seaguy, and The...

A co-worker pointed out something interesting:

Obviously the ship sequences of "#10" heavily evoked Jim Steranko's classic run on Nick Fury: Agent of Shield visually. What if parts of what we're...

Great stuff Brian.

My personal feeling is that the "woe is me" narrative of declining circulation is obscuring the awesome untold story of comics in North America: how a dedicated group of...

That's a pretty fair assessment IMHO. Again, I'm really glad that this thread got at least one person to go back and reassess their response to TDKR. As I expressed well up thread sometimes the...

Sorry, I just can't agree with that. You can't simultaneosly argue that Morrison hasn't been as influential as Moore and then say that he had an equal contribution to grim and gritty.

And I don't...

Exactly. Promethea isn't Moore's best comic but it's his most personal. And since most people, myself included, aren't intimately familiar with the magical philosophy he adheres to it's a pretty...

Holy crap! To be filed in the department of "really obvious stuff I should have noticed years ago": so I'm reading part 4 of the above linked blog series and I was only just clued into the fact...

That I'd be interested to see. :tongue:

Yeah, and where do I vote for "the one who suits the story being told"?

1) Judging by the fact that this thread pops up about once a month I'm gonna say that it's generally underrated overall. On the other hand this happens in the Batman forum for The Dark Knight...

Look, everyone can like what they like. Everyone can think what they think. But if we're gonna actually talk to each other rather than at each other then yes, the onus is on you to MAKE. AN....

Because there is no work that will ever engage every single reader. So, if we're going to move the discussion beyond the level of "I liked it/I didn't like it" you've got to start talking about the...

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No, good God, no.

TDKR is a time capsule to the mid-80s though. If you let it it could teach you a lot about the social, political, and cultural context that it came out of. If you want...

But the OP goes well beyond saying (the completely legitimate) "I didn't like it."

I'm pretty sure that when you start by asserting that something so well regarded and influential is "pretty bad"...

I think one of the reasons my appreciation for TDKR has increased with age is that when I first read it as a youngish teenager it was just a really badass Batman comic that was darker, grimer, more...

Crap! We all forgot the issues of 52 that deal with the thogal ritual! What numbers were they? They definately need to be in something this comprhensive. Are they the "extra" material in the new...

No, I was talking on a purely technical panel to panel storytelling continuity level. Someone was kind enough to post the page in question earlier (because they loved it). Go have a look again and...

And that's fine: everyone's free to spend their money however they want. DC editorial/art direction, Morrison, and Morales all chose to highlight the "Superman captured!" angle in the cover after...