Just so we can avoid painful misunderstandings in the light of the coming media blitz...

[fpb]

...I was there when Watchmen first came out. I regard it as one of the biggest disappointments of my entire life and probably the worst thing Alan Moore ever did. Yes, so in real life people who went out in funny costumes with the idea of fighting crime would probably turn out to be brutes, rapists or inadequates. So what? Thirty years after we all agreed that superheroes were modern mythology, we really have to be so surprised by the fact that they are not realistic? Why, Stan Lee was smarter than this!

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I think the copyrights on my trade-paperback collection of the original Tick issues are from a year or two after Watchmen first appeared. But I might be wrong about that: I can't seem to find the volume at the moment.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

BTW, have you read my article about Moore's politics? It has something to say, in passing, about his po-mo attitude: http://fpb.livejournal.com/216352.html.