Who Watches the WATCHMEN? VIII

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Author: Topic: Who Watches --- The Watchmen?

macjac
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posted 07-12-2001 09:31 AM ___ _ __ __
Has anyone read the books?
Does anyone have a status report on the proposed movie?
Posts: 3219 | From: N.J. GSP Exit149 | Registered: Apr 2001 _|_

macjac
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posted 07-16-2001 12:27 PM ___ _ __ __
The Watchmen
For serial freaks, that care to backtrack, (Wot the HELL are they talking about?)
This is kind of a spin-off of the HB&G Thread. It began warping that topic way out of
bounds, so I dragged it over to a new topic heading.

Since this is GENERAL DISCUSSIONS FORUM, let's DISCUSS.
We were sharing interesting books with each other, but if this runs to movies,
concerts cartoons and beyond, who cares?

I now declare this topic:

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Posts: 3219 | From: N.J. GSP Exit149 | Registered: Apr 2001 _|_

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*Author of The Watchmen.

For Moore* & Moore* Information!

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Watchmen #1 Best Comic Book Ever Written *

WHAT IF SUPERHEROES REALLY EXISTED? What if costumed vigilantes changed the course of our history?
Watchmen was a 12-issue series published by DC that was set outside the normal DC Universe. No Superman or Wonder Women existed here. In this world, the heroes of yesterday are retired, dead, on the run from the law or kept under careful surveillance by governments eager to exploit their powers. A half-insane hero called Rorschach (he hides his face behind a mask of shifting shapes) decides that someone is trying to murder the remaining heroes, and so he searches for the truth. As the plot progresses, he and his former teammates learn of a plan that will bring world peace by killing millions of innocent people, and they're horrified to discover it's the handiwork of a former superhero who has taken his mission to save the world to its logical extreme.

Personal Note:
Click on the above link, and the "Watchmen" link in that.
It's just called, "The Watchmen". "Who Watches the Watchmen" is the catch-phrase. It implies that the watchmen watches US, But who keeps tabs on HIM?
In these books it is revealed that these masked vigilantes are far more screwed up in every sense, than the average person could ever conceive of being!
For instance, what's up with guys obsessed by playing dress-up in tight rubber suits who 'get off' on beating, (AND being beaten by) criminals.
For the first time the lines separating good/bad, black/white, sane/insane, duty/obsession. are questioned and explored.
Up until then, "HEROES" like the Batman were viewed as hyper/civic crusaders. After this, their motive becomes somewhat less clear.
The book is a compilation of 12 comic books that were originally released once a month
over the course a year.
They were later gathered into a Hard covered book, that was issued at $50.00, and was inflated to $150.00 (as a collector's item) before it even hit the streets.
It was reissues in a soft cover addition for about $15.00.
It's available, but it's usually up in a "keep-your-jelly-stained-fingers-off this-book!"
place of honor.
If you go into a comic book store (whole 'nuther world) It is still the Key that parts the waves.
The old timers will just grunt and nod respectfully, "OHHH, 'The WATCHMEN!', that's the comic book that completely changed comic books -------- FOREVER.
(actually I'm not a comic book reader, I gave it up in my youth), The Watchmen was forced on me, and from the first page, I couldn't put it down, 4 times.
When I force it on someone else, they usually begin by protesting, and then after their 4th reading, force it upon the next unsuspecting bystander.
-WWtW

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The Annotated Watchmen
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nkuvu wrote:
Dang it, now I'm reading it again...

...of course...
The DANGER There is that you may "Start seeing 'Commies Under 'da Covers' "!
...in other words...
...you'll begin to draw parallels to what's going on in the 'real' world today...

...and You'll Begin Watching the REAL WATCHMEN! *

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Before you even ask...
*Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project , launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small.

Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection , a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages.

Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB) ,GNU Emacs , and various other GNU programs.

Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU Project.

Stallman received the Grace Hopper Award for 1991 from the Association for Computing Machinery, for his development of the first Emacs editor. In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he received the Yuri Rubinski Award. In 2001 he received a second honorary doctorate, from the University of Glasgow, and shared the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment with Torvalds and Ken Sakamura. In 2002 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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