Rorschach is a satire of Batman and Batman-like characters.
Anon gets it, but doesn’t make the leap to wondering if other people don’t.
Unless they’re also against people enjoying characters who do awful things for terrible reasons. In which case: how do you not write off Watchmen, altogether? My guy: that’s the whole point. Moore wanted to take a Charlton Comics proto-Justice League and utterly destroy them with a rigidly-paneled masterwork essentially titled Superheroes Are Bad, Actually. DC said he had to make up his own guys. So he did, and held absolutely nothing back. Everyone is terrible. Some subtly… some super duper not. And it’s fucking awesome.
No less than David Bowie has highlighted the appeal. “Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy - oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know, he’s in the bestselling show?”
Rorschach is a satire of Batman and Batman-like characters.
Anon gets it, but doesn’t make the leap to wondering if other people don’t.
Unless they’re also against people enjoying characters who do awful things for terrible reasons. In which case: how do you not write off Watchmen, altogether? My guy: that’s the whole point. Moore wanted to take a Charlton Comics proto-Justice League and utterly destroy them with a rigidly-paneled masterwork essentially titled Superheroes Are Bad, Actually. DC said he had to make up his own guys. So he did, and held absolutely nothing back. Everyone is terrible. Some subtly… some super duper not. And it’s fucking awesome.
No less than David Bowie has highlighted the appeal. “Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy - oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know, he’s in the bestselling show?”