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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
If there's a better comic, I haven't read. Just for curiosity, what do you think the best comic so far is?



I like Solar: Alpha & Omega by Shooter.

I like Watchmen by Moore.

And I like Astro City by Busiek.

There should be more comics like that.

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
Same as before: I don't know a better comic writer.



Then you need to read more

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
So Tom Strong has the same ideas as From Hell? Promethea and A Small Killing?
He does have some recurrent topics, but he views them under different lights (the Victorian era from From Hell is radically different from the one in LoEG).



His Supremacy is the same as his Captain Britain Corps but "different", just like the multiple Tom Strong's are the same but "different"...

He has very few notes and he uses them a lot to the point that they indirectly water down the original.

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
Like...?



Crisis

Unity

Alpha & Omega

Astro City

Man of Steel

Year One

Perez's Wonder Woman

Hey, not all stories have to be grim n gritty or full of sex like Watchmen to be better than Watchmen, you know?

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
That's right. And those concepts have rarely been shown as well as they were in Watchmen since then.



I disagree.

You really need to read more than just DC and Marvel comics...

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
The little I've read is more than enough to realize that, for me, it isn't. Besides, the way Watchmen was told was groundbreaking. The way the story was carefully constructed. Every little detail mattered and it isn't a coincidence that Dave Gibbons is the artist, Moore specifically selected him for his great attention to detail.
The issues of Withcblade and Darkness I read were average dark superhero comics, told as average dark superhero comics and drawn as average dark superhero comics.



Yet the content goes beyond just average dark super hero comics

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
Not if Moore had gotten his hands on him.



You're just helping me make my point

For Moore to do what he wanted he would have needed to change the characters.

That's why Levitz didn't let him.

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
If Watchmen had been an average comic and there had been no repercussions to the characters, there would have been no problem at all with using them.



So Moore should have used them do whatever he wanted and then the next writer should have just ignored him and do his own thing and so on and so forth?

Boring.

That's the same crap that happened before Watchmen.

People want repercutions in their comics, not ignorance.

Had the above happened in Watchmen then it would have been an average comic.

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I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said:
But viewed under a whole new light. As you said, the human side of the characters was something groundbreaking at the time. What's so groundbreaking about Witchblade?



Depends on your perspective.

Witchblade, along with Lady Death, ushered the "Bad Girl" era of the 90's...

To some, that would be groundbreaking.

From another perspective, Witchblade turned Turner into a super star penciller...

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