Watchmen
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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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Heroes Never Rust #88: Turning Exposition into Plot
Heroes Never Rust #88 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Turning Exposition into Plot At the end of the fifth issue, Rorschach was caught by the police and unmasked. The sixth issue of Watchmen deals with the fallout and gives Rorschach center stage. While the other characters kind of sit around, Rorschach is the active one. He… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #86: Watchmen: Non-Chronological Storytelling
Heroes Never Rust #86 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Non-Chronological Storytelling The fourth issue of Watchmen is a centerpiece for delving into Doctor Manhattan’s character. At the end of the third issue, he teleports to Mars. There, he builds a massive clock tower and, basically, reflects on his life. Reflect might not be the right word.… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #85: Watchmen & Sex
Heroes Never Rust #85 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Sex A great deal occurs in the third issue of Watchmen. Laurie and Dan get their taste for superheroics reinvigorated when they are jumped in an alley. Doctor Manhattan is confronted on television for allegedly giving cancer to people around him due to his super powers. He… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #84: Watchmen, and Flashbacks
Heroes Never Rust #84 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Flashbacks Flashbacks are tricky. A story needs to move forward, not backward. But. Sometimes to move forward we have to move backward. Readers need information for certain scenes and characters to have resonance. At times, events that occurred before the story’s present are necessary. They may be… Continue reading
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