Posted by the12thBeatle at c-67-166-188-124.client.comcast.net on December 11, 2003 at 00:38:28:
In Reply to: Deconstruction self-destructs. posted by Smalls on December 08, 2003 at 00:24:58:
Watchmen a good analogy for our current times. Seriously. I can kind of see it, but not very specifically.
: As one of the seminal deconstructive works of comic books that has been... ripped off five-hundred-thousand times... of course it's going to feel stale.
: What needs to be remembered is: all the current attempts at re-deconstruction of comics being essentially mental masturbation and an easy attempt at feeling "deep" for a writer aside, this is one of the books that did it first and did it best.
: And... you're going to like the ending or else...
: Well... or else you actually think Sadaam and Osama weren't trying to kill each other more than we were trying to kill either of them.
: I'm not even digging at the Fox brainwashed cats on the board, there's a very good analogy to what went on in the end of the book and what's going on now...
: Mike