I'm outta here for a little R & R for the weekend, but I thought I'd leave you this clip from You Tube and Comics Britannia featuring one Alan Moore talking about his Watchmen. Insightful stuff if you haven't seen it already. The rest of the interview is available under "Alan Moore" on You Tube and it's well worth your time to look.
If you've never read the Watchmen please do so, It's one of the few works in comics that I can totally geek about and is an amazing read whether you're into superheroes or not. A VERY important work, covering VERY important themes that are twice as relevant today than they were when they were done.
The visuals for the upcoming movie look incredible- but like the actual graphic novel the whole point and intensity of the work hinges on both art and story working together at the peak of their possibilities. I'm hoping the movie is even half as good as the comic.
I'm posting this to show you how comics CAN be relevant- AND imaginative. Like all good art comics can effect you on a lot of different levels and yet still have that spark of wonder and imagination that is so missing from a good portion (vast majority actually) of comics today.
This clip also shows you how a writer can THINK and approach his work. You have to appreciate genius for what it is:
WAKE UP!
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