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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
No. I just think it's the best comic ever. And Moore is probably the best comic writer ever.



I wouldn't call it the best ever, there have been better.

And Moore is far from being the best writer ever.

He's, at best, a five note writer.

All his projects have the same ideas behind them.

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Quite possible. I'd aim for that if I was a writer. Hasn't happened yet, though. Besides, Watchmen's genius isn't so much about the concept, it's more about how it's told and how the story is constructed.



Maybe back then, but not today.

In the last 18 years since Watchmen there have been better stories.

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It was one of the first words in dark comics, and it should have been the last. Everything grim that came out afterwards was an attempt to recreate Watchmen and DKR. Like all imitations, they were inferior.



Eh, I wasn't talking about the grim and gritty aspects of it, I was refering more to the down to Earth aspects of it.

In an era when comics were still about bad dialogue and uber-fantastical elements, Watchmen brought a new perspective into comics ( or at least one that hadn't been exploited to its full potential), that of looking at the heroes from the inside out instead of the outside in.

Watchmen helped open the door to the idea that the lives of the people under the mask were just as important as their lives when wearing the mask.

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They could potentially be. Are they? From what I've seen, they're not even close. Not the concepts, not the stories.



Hey, I might get the same impression if I didn't follow them on a constant basis.

Since I do and have since, relatively speaking, they started, I can tell you that apperances can be deceiving.

To an outsider, Witchblade might look like a comic with a women with giant breasts, but the series is about more than that.

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Right. Different names and costumes, as I said.



No, no, it would have gone beyond that.

You can't do with Captain Atom what Moore did with Dr. Manhattan. Captain Atom will never get to the point of being able to build a city made of glass on Mars, that's something that goes beyond him.

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That's the whole point. He had to change them because he wasn't allowed to do certain things with the original characters.



I think he changed them because he wasn't allowed to use them at all.

He has to create new ones, that while original, still owed a lot to their counterparts.

Manhattan was one of the more original creations, but the others still owed a lot to their counterparts.

Comics are like a Rorschach test; everyone has a different opinion on what they are and can be...