It was bound to happen. The film is mere days away and we decided to sit down and chop up Moore and Gibbons' landmark series in the best way we knew how—by bringin' in some help!
We took it back to Titan Games & Comics, since we had so much fun there the last time, and joining us in the 'round:
Adrian J. aka Inazuma Tiger, a friend and up-and-coming artist who frequently posts on our message board. He was with us the first time we hung out at Titans.
Christian Sager, a local comic writer we've gotten to know over the last year. Sager has two creator-owned properties he's currently launching: Border Crossings and Partial Invasive. You can take a look at the former here.
And finally, Titans Store Manager and passionate comics fan, Mike Loewnau. I've known Mike for several years and figured he'd bring up some awesome points about the series (he did). Plus, he kindly let us crash his place again, so many thanks to him!
Actually, we wanna thank all three of these fellas for jumpin' in the fray with us and offering up their opinions. They rocked it!
**For this special Watchmen episode, we played snippets of Smashing Pumpkins' The End is the Beginning is the End.
Click here to download the show.
Just one thing I wanted to ramble about in response to something I heard...I actually find Nite Owl 2, along with Silk Spectre, to be the most despicable characters in the book. Not the most "wrong", but the most immoral...and the most selfish. Nite Owl just goes along with whatever because he'd rather people nearest in proximity think they're happy than do what's really good for them and the world. I know people like that--they can't be comfortable in a world without complacency, and their goodness, while nice, is only there to serve their own needs. They're great people, but they have no identity and their help is limited to people who could probably help themselves.
I think it's like Sandman in that everybody has one they can most identify with, both in their strengths and their weaknesses. I'm a Rorschach/Delirium gal, myself. I must feel underestimated!
I just saw the movie and thought it was very good, especially regarding the balance between loyalty to the story vs. creating something that's art in its own right. He definitely understands what makes it great and yet I felt like some things actually worked better on screen. I'm not sure I'd get it if I weren't in comics and hadn't read the book...but then I have trouble getting most modern movies!
Hope you liked it, too.
Posted by: Amy | March 06, 2009 at 03:07 AM