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June 1, 2011 3:42 am Must admit I've never 'got' Jim Lee but the more I thought about this since reading the news the more I wonder if this will be the greatest 'jumping off' point in comics history. The costumes show Lee's porn star and muscle collar sensibilities and seem tonally out of tune with the age group they should be aimed at with the age of comic readers and digital device owners. Still, may be ace. I'll certainly be buying half a dozen issue ones... I hope some decent artists get to flex their muscles.

May 31, 2011 5:39 pm "faster than an oncoming train" sorry. .. A "speeding train" . It's an excellent way to drown out the positives of day/date.

May 31, 2011 5:24 pm Day and date = good. Although I do worry about comic shops in that. Jim Lee redesigned costumes? Can't help feel that the Wonder Woman revamp should have shown how well this is likely to go down. Anyhow, we all know this will last 11 issues right and then everything will go back to old numbering, right?

May 16, 2011 2:56 pm All of them = winners :)

February 25, 2011 5:01 pm The fact that my Doom pic is included makes me gasp especially next to the awesomeness on display. 

As it was an iPod pic (brushes app) it also dumps out the data of the picture being drawn which I'd been working on an edit for. Seeing the pic in the sketch up page was the spur for me to get it finished... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5Vv61cHHY Hope you like. 

November 24, 2010 12:49 pm

Morning Glories covers are always well done and fab to look at.

Lots of  love for the Batman inc cover. Both use the text in clever and interesting ways too.

October 29, 2010 10:06 am

Cats are creepy though. Dogs are much better, and Mignola knows this in his heart of hearts.

And Heroic Age text destruction for the win :) 

September 24, 2010 1:10 pm

An interesting and related question might be does Watchmen ruin other superhero comics, as in can you look at super heroes again with the same eyes once you've seen them humanised as much as Moore managed, if you saw Watchmen first would you then find something like the Avengers tainted.

Also: The Killing Joke is an awesome intro to comics. Forgotted that as a possible pick but if asked that might well be the best suggestion so far. (My normal pick of Cerebus may not be the best easy to pick up intro after all :) ;) ) 

September 24, 2010 11:44 am

Uh oh.

(runs away). 

September 24, 2010 11:43 am

Yes (writing) and no (art). 

Sorry.

It shows what comics could be, should aspire to be, and often are not. Another problem is that though it is still an awesome comic work its stil obsessed with the same superhero theme which holds comics back in so many ways. I'm not saying that I don't love superhero comics (I do) but tend to see so many poor ones I wish we could ditch them as the standard bearer and move onto a new theme to have as a foundation. 

That said: artistically it's not the  greatest work out there (I wish I lived on the parallel universe where Higgins drew and Gibbons coloured. THAT's the Watchmen I want to read). Actually that's an understatement: I find Gibbons artwork uninteresting in the extreme but hey ho, can't argue with those royalty statements. It's certainly easier to say now that you've read Watchmen check out Sienkiewicz, McKean, Sacco, Eisner, Veitch, McKeever et al.

I've certainly read no comic with as well arranged or subtley delivered a world and seen no film adaptation which angered me as much as Watchmen was hobbled by.

But there are a good few books you can go onto after Watchmen, just not anywhere near as many as there should have been bearing in mind its age.