Posted by Darth Dobbin at 208-58-249-47.s47.tnt1.nwhv.ct.dialup.rcn.com on June 21, 2001 at 15:48:32:
In Reply to: Dobbin: regarding WATCHMEN and DARK KNIGHT RETURNS posted by Pseudo on June 21, 2001 at 14:43:35:
...I do understand your point about placing DARK KNIGHT on a pedestal; it's true, it is not the ONLY great story one can do with the character. As to the WATCHMAN misunderstanding, I thought, as you surmised, that you were grouping the two together, and calling them over-rated.
And yes, Miller's DAREDEVIL run was the pre-cursor, that I'll grant you, but DARK KNIGHT was a phenemenon all to itself- the format, the presentation, and the seeming understanding of the publishers, even at it's inception, that THIS was a ground-breaking, rules-changing work.
You should do yourself a favor, and buy just about every Eisner trade paperback; his SPIRIT comics were so wildly ahead of their time, and in very many ways were the "spiritual" ancestors to today's "mature" comics. But his life-story stuff- CONTRACT WITH GOD, etc, is just plain ol' fanstastic, in a very different direction.