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]>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: "Innocence"
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>> and as far as graphic novels are concerned
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> 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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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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