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I’m beginning to feel somewhat lost in this book, and the thing that puzzles me, is that I’m not sure…

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April 19, 2010 2:48 pm

They can't ship the comics around from the West coast of America, through Alaska, over the Russian Fed, speeding it across Eastern and Western Europe cheekily into the UK through our wonderful neighbours, the French!?

No?

Let's see some of that Dunkirk spirit, chaps. 

BQ: Star Trek (Inglorious Basterds was three poor stories rolled into one big missed opportunity) and The Godfather pt. II. 

April 5, 2010 9:48 am
Fantastic news! You're a wonderful comics amalgam of talent.
I'm really looking forward to this. 
February 21, 2010 11:24 am Congratulations. Welcome to the World!
February 17, 2010 1:54 pm Congratulations. It's good to know the future's being paved for the ifanboy collective. I hear the drinks are on Conor!
February 4, 2010 8:01 am The Walking Dead and Invincible are absolute benchmark comic books. Essential reads. Can't wait for this. Hail Kirkman!
February 4, 2010 7:55 am

I don't think that high-end works of literature, that speak volumes to us in self-contained stories, should ever be cajouled by the mass market into being "sequel/prequel-ised", made into spin-offs, or milked for whatever monetary value they have left in them. 

Watchmen falls between the comics market and, as some have argued, literary master-pieces. Nobody would claim, legitimately, the right to add sequels and prequels to a work of Dickens. You can't simply paint a portrait and market it as part of a two painting series, the other being the Mona Lisa. It's ludicrous. It's just not the same.

I'm not saying Moore is comparable to Da Vinci, but Watchmen is the most revered book comics has got and the principle is the same.  

Am I alone in thinking that we revere the most those works that ended well before their expiry date, on a high, in a blaze of glory? That stand as monolith's to a cause or a statement, or an art? Or does everything need to be a diluted, smeared around, chopped up, sold off, strung out and whored out.

Watchmen does not occupy the same space in culture as many of the super-hero, status quo, soap opera's that have come to pass. It's a critique of those very works and the super-hero itself, and shouldn't meet the same fate.

January 31, 2010 7:09 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FMPew9W5E8

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240689/

Is the comic, 'The losers' based at all on the 1968 film, 'The losers'?

Group of military vagrants. Flaming motorbikes. Customised weaponry. 

Just caught my eye yesterday when looking for the 2010 trailer. Looking forward to picking up the comic now.  

January 28, 2010 10:43 am

Back-lit comics look so awesome, but an iPhone/PSP screen just doesn't cut it. Come on publishers, make the leap!

I'm just hoping the iPad comes with a stylus and photoshop. (#makecomics!!!).

January 27, 2010 11:31 am Looks undeniably 'porno' cheap.