V for vendetta is hilarious, since the author is a mental child who believed that England under Thatcher was the height authoritarian tyranny. He may have been the first "literally Hitler" example out in the wild.
Rorschach was also clearly the only character with an unfailing sense of justice lol and was willing to die because he refused to compromise with evil.
Exactly. Dr. Manhattan's entire philosophy of "the global good" and the ends justifying the means is explicitly rejected in the foundational principles of American government.
I always saw him as the villain. A creature whose transcendence to godhood deprived him of the fundamental understanding of the human experience that should have made this obvious to him.
I know Moore intended Watchmen to be a critique of the US/Russian arms race and threat of nuclear war, but I'm free to take the lessons and meaning I want from his work.
V for vendetta is hilarious, since the author is a mental child who believed that England under Thatcher was the height authoritarian tyranny. He may have been the first "literally Hitler" example out in the wild.
Alan "I wrote Rorschach to be a racist psychopath, why do people think he is the most heroic character?" Moore?
Rorschach was also clearly the only character with an unfailing sense of justice lol and was willing to die because he refused to compromise with evil.
Exactly. Dr. Manhattan's entire philosophy of "the global good" and the ends justifying the means is explicitly rejected in the foundational principles of American government.
I always saw him as the villain. A creature whose transcendence to godhood deprived him of the fundamental understanding of the human experience that should have made this obvious to him.
I know Moore intended Watchmen to be a critique of the US/Russian arms race and threat of nuclear war, but I'm free to take the lessons and meaning I want from his work.
Did he really say that?
There was nothing that indicated that as far as I know.
Something something HBO series. Which he fully supported.
Alan "My ideal Batman story is where Joker's wife has a miscarriage and then he molests the Gordons" Moore.