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From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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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.
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