First off, the 1948 Paramount Anti-trust case did NOT ban studios from owning theaters. It forced studios to divest themselves of theaters.

The format has been used before for the 2007 New Warriors run. A run that ended with most of the team being killed off as a catalyst for the event Civil War.

Personally I like it, I haven’t read the comic but Gurihiru’s stuff on The Unbelievable Gwenpool was always top-notch, I assume it’s still good here.

This other old person thanks you for asking before she had to.

This old person wants to know if ‘tough’ means ‘gooood’ or ‘baaad’, and if it means ‘baaaad’, does it mean ‘bad in a gooood way’ or just ‘bad’.

I think that’s an oversimplification of the piece, but I don’t see anything wrong with it. Do you want to explain why it’s so obviously wrong?

The craziest part to me was searching for this on YouTube and seeing it’s nine years old.  What the fuck have I been doing for the past decade?

The Watchmen comic didn’t just deconstruct superheroes. I also deconstructed the medium of comics.

Hell, the whole “I can watch the entirety of time back and forth” of Dr. Manhattan doesn’t make sense in a movie because he’s talking about the actual panels and pages of the comic.

Man I love his work. Here he publishes a comic 30 years ago and it still amazes me.  My Watchmen and V omnibuses are and will be in tatters from constant readings.

Oh fuuuuck I haven’t seen that in years.

The weirdest thing about that was that it was created by the son of Andy Partridge of XTC.

Now Promethea is definitely unfilmable. Not least as no studio would touch it with a barge-pole.

Basically, Moore was intentionally trying to use the actual physical form of comic books to its fullest potential. I’m not sure anyone has ever done it better.

That cartoon is one of the best things I ever seen.

Yah. I’m fully on board the “film is a different medium” train. But op suggesting NOTHING about the original work matters is an odd take. Theme absolutely matters.

But keeping the themes is actually important to an adaptation. That’s what Snyder’s Watchman gets wrong. 

Generally I agree with you on the “judge an adaptation on its own merit” argument but Watchmen is different.

With respect to Moore’s claims about trying to write something unfilmable . . . I think I’ve seen this. And it wasn’t so much that he said he was trying to make an unfilmable movie, but instead, he wrote Watchmen to take advantage of things only a comic book would do.

I love Mark Hamill. He just comes across as such a genuinely good dude.