There is something to be said for Anarchy. Not a pleasant world it would make, but some digression through anarchy would be progressive for government to be more productive and less corrupt.

Of course anarchy can bread its own corruption as well.

Loved reading Watchmen, thought the film did it good service. Different perhaps, but I think the characters and the world they inhabited felt similar enough for me. Liked V too, but I never read it so can't really comment.

As for the decline of comics/graphic novels...I look to the internet. There are a lot of really bad webcomics, but there are some real diamonds out there with great artwork and writing and all they need is a succesful kickstarter to get into print.

Dude hasn't seen V for vendetta......

I've always wondered about that, if they have to make sure not to watch other stuff covering their material so they don't get influenced by it.

*books says it includes graphic novels so, yeah

Adding video to channels (Books) - requested by xxovercastxx.

"I do prefer to criticize things from a position of ignorance."

Love that line.

Some truly amazing comics that have come out during these death throes:

I Kill Giants
Action Philosophers!
Mouse Guard
Crécy
Pride of Baghdad
Power Girl
All-Star Superman
Incredible Hercules

and, yeah, many webcomics.

>> ^Sagemind:

There is something to be said for Anarchy. Not a pleasant world it would make, but some digression through anarchy would be progressive for government to be more productive and less corrupt.
Of course anarchy can bread its own corruption as well.


The real meaning of anarchy is what modern Americans would call libertarianism - did you watch the recent Chomsky vid on political semantics? Check out prince Peter kropotkin.

>> ^Porksandwich:

Dude hasn't seen V for vendetta......
I've always wondered about that, if they have to make sure not to watch other stuff covering their material so they don't get influenced by it.


The movies of vendetta and from hell are not even remotely worthy of the comics.
Although to really enjoy the comics you have to be a depressed young person in Thatchers Britain. Listening to 'a forest' by the cure might be the only way back..:)

@cosmovitelli

Tried to untangle that mess of comment strings into something that looked right, but gave up ...looks like a big jumble for what comes out of it.

Anyway I was referring to my wondering if authors and such try to ignore other mediums covering their material so they don't end up changing their perspective on their writing/whatever. TVs and movies in particular strip away a lot of the nuanced stuff in the stories to give you the core in a more "actiony" way.........but that's not what the original fans liked about the books (maybe)....so being influenced by the movie you might overlook the nuances.

Game of Thrones tv show does a really good job on the books, but those things are massive...there's just a lot of stuff happening in the books that would make the TV show too hard to follow since it's not conducive to stop and go back over and over to remind yourself whose who and what's what. Hell with how dense the books are, you can't be sure of what they are leaving out until you get further into the season....to see if they wrote around a character or place. I've been wondering if the Tv show production hasn't changed Martin's writing in the last book and maybe even the book before it..because they were very slow and not very good in comparison to prior books which fit a lot more happenings into one book than he had in two massive books.


Or Dresden Files, I don't know if Jim Butcher ever watched the TV show on it or listens to the audiobooks that Marsden narrates. But Marsden reading Dresden books really changes the book for me versus just straight reading it. Often wonder if he writes with Marsden in mind since he's so popular as a narrator or if he ignores all that stuff.

@Porksandwich

I think you're right that letting directors and producers into your head as a writer can be both helpful and/or dangerous..

What I meant was Moore hasn't seen those movies because they were shit. Like a veteran of ww2 avoiding watching Bay's Pearl Harbour. The only thing they'd be trying to avoid is insult or rage.