Nah, I don't tend to seek out interviews with the guy, as I find his politics odious, his recent projects beyond awful, and I'm not sure he's made a decent comic in 20 years— after Holy Terror and The Spirit, I think he lost all credibility or right to be taken seriously. I've read a couple where he's been polite, but…

I think you missed the part where he named them, designed them, and wrote all their dialogue. They're his characters in every conceivable artistic sense, even if they're not his legal property. I don't expect WB to respect that, but I think they deserve to be criticized when they don't. We should want more than the…

If Frank Miller is being Frank Miller, keepin' on with his horrible opinions, being involved in terrible insulting movies, and publishing shit like Holy Terror, he's still an asshole regardless of how polite he is to an interviewer.

If it's morally wrong and corporations suck, why are you taking their side? I'm not arguing that DC's outside of their legal rights here, just basic artistic decency— he fact that Moore signed a contract does nothing to invalidate that. Orson Welles got screwed out of his artistic ownership through totally legal…

He and Gibbons make, according to the best publicly-available figures, a combined 2% of all Watchmen direct sales revenues, 8% of the initial run, and nothing from licensing or merchandising. He's certainly seeing nothing from this Batman crossover. That's a lot of money when you factor in how successful the comic is,…

Because he's a great writer who redefined an entire medium, despite being a bit of a crank?

Personally, I don't usually keep up with superhero comics and so don't comment here, but I love Watchmen and feel very, very strongly about creators' rights, so that's what I'm here to discuss. This is basically one of the only times this column's touched on a subject I've got expertise on.

Watchmen is so, incredibly, dense. It takes 2-3 times as long to read as most comics that size and has ten times as much information. I first read it 14 years ago and I'm still finding new things and uncovering new wrinkles in the story

"the end result is very good but at the end of the day is just a book not some revolutionary work of staggering originality and brilliance."

He couldn't have disputed it. The comics industry was, and still is, incredibly exploitative, especially of new talent, and his only option was to take the raw deal or not work at all. He chose to work in that industry in order to pursue his artistic visions, but to say he should grin and bear it is like saying that…

"But he did it in his usual Millar way so he kinda got lost in how "cool" it was for him to even have the idea in the first place and it looks like a tacit endorsement instead."

Moore also did that with public domain or historical figures, and the Watchmen characters are wholly-realized and, with the exception of some overlap in design or imagery, very distinct from the characters that inspired them. Rorschach has a similar outfit and worldview to The Question, but The Question wasn't a…

I'm pretty sure this was the plot of one of the Carnage books.

A good Bloody Mary won't make you sleepy— the way I make 'em, the sriracha, horseradish, and garlic does a lot to counteract the 1.5 oz of booze.

Fuckin' book sucks!

It is, and it blows my mind that I'm not aware of any song sampling it.

Bill-O also did an audiobook of this, of which there are clips floating about on the internet. If you've ever wanted to hear him do an impression of a black crack dealer getting a blowjob, I highly recommend you seek them out.

Disqus and my phone hate each other, and the page will frequently crash and reload while I'm halfway through a comment— after this, the comment box won't expand and the only way to continue what I was typing is to post the comment and edit the rest of it in.

I just want to give a shout out to how fucking great Fishbourne is in this movie, too— he makes Morpheus a wise, knowing mentor who can kick ass and still be totally human and vulnerable. The scene where he's being tortured by Smith is a great bit of acting from both of them, and Morpheus never feels like he's just…

It especially hasn't aged well because X2 delivers on the same ideas and style, but surpasses it in every single way. I honestly can't think of a single thing to recommend the first one over the second, unless you like really corny Joss Whedon zingers.