Alan Moore
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #376: Until the End
I do suppose this is it. After five volumes in just as many weeks, we’ve finally come to the last volume of Promethea and have fully immersed ourselves in the world that’s been created for us. But has it really been created for us, or has it been here the whole time—a fiction hiding just beneath what… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #375: We Will Follow
And it begins again. But this time a little differently as this volume begins in the middle of a story instead of neatly at an arc’s opening. All does become clear, though, as this particular volume continues as we have one of the more major state changes this time—but then the continually shifting world beneath… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #374: For as Long as the Path Goes
The path of Promethea is a long one. Or at least it’s a convoluted one. The path, for the most part, is many things and goes in many different directions, sometimes looping back upon itself endlessly. But then that’s a part of the structure of the story Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Jeromy… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #373: And It Continues
Last week I began my first foray into Promethea, a series that I had initially thought had some kind of basis in mythology, but was a fiction Alan Moore had created as the foundation for a sprawling story centered around the idea of his own creation. Not content with only looking at one volume of this story,… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #94: Endings
Heroes Never Rust #94 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Endings Endings are difficult. Do you leave the story open-ended? Do you lead into another story? Do you connect the story back to the beginning? Do you have an epilogue? There are a lot of questions and no answers. Ambiguous endings work from time to time, but so… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #93: Master Plans
Heroes Never Rust #93 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Master Plans So we have come to this. The penultimate issue of Watchmen. The issue when the villain is truly revealed and his master plan is set. Although a few pages are given over to some of the residents of New York City, most of the issue… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #92: Coincidence
Heroes Never Rust #92 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Coincidence Eventually, a story must come together—well, at least a good one. All the subplots and character interactions must mean something. Many writers seem to try to make their story “realistic.” More like life. But, life is meaningless, and stories help us make sense of the randomness… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #91: Sentimentality
Heroes Never Rust #91 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Sentimentality Watchmen presents a bleak world. Superheroes are no the superheroes many people are familiar with. The world, or at least a great deal of the world, seems to hate the vigilantes. But, there is one real moment of, not happiness, but positivity. At the end of… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #90: Skip the Door
Heroes Never Rust #90 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: When Not to Show Watchmen, for the most part, is devoid of action. There are blips on the radar, but the comic is very much a bunch of talking heads. But the eighth issue is the most action packed. We get Rorschach taking on Big Figure and… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #89: Dream Sequences
Heroes Never Rust #89 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Dream Sequences When I took Introduction to Creative Writing as an undergraduate student, I was given a list of things that I could not use in my writing. I was told that my stories would be stronger if I did not include certain things, at least as… Continue reading
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