I refuse to see the film of V.
Roger
On 8/11/06, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for the recommendations, Fred - and to everyone else who chipped
> in - I've ordered The Watchmen & The Tours of the Black Clock. I've seen
> V for Vendetta, amusing but I would hope the book has more going for it.
> mj
>
> Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: "Innocence"
> >
> >
> >> and as far as graphic novels are concerned
> >
> >
> > Gaiman is good but he can get cloying -- my tastes are harder-edged.
> > The classics are The Watchmen by Alan Moore, The Dark Knight Returns
> > by Frank Miller, and V for Vendetta, also by Moore. The first Batman
> > film w/ Michael Keaton captured a small part of The Dark Knight; the
> > film of V a smaller part of that book. You might check out the
> > Miracleman series, which is hard to find in the US; Moore worked on
> > one of them, Gaiman on another (The Golden Age, the art in which is
> > exceptional). I also recommend Daniel Clowes, esp. Ghost World.
> > Movie also made of that. Interesting to compare - quite a good movie,
> > but incapable of recreating the impression made by every panel of the
> > original: that this is in fact a world of the dead.
>
>
> --
> The older I get, the more I agree with Shakespeare and those poet Johnnies about it always being darkest before the dawn and there's a silver lining and what you lose on the swings you make up on the roundabouts. Bertram Wooster, Esq.
>
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