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Alan Moore doesn't want his name on the stuff. A union won't affect anything in this case, lol.

Seemed alright enough. But I listen to audiobooks quite a lot, so I'm used to one narrator straining to cover different characters. The ambient sounds were nice.
 
Greatness Gone said:
Horrendous.
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I thought it was pretty well done, if you think of an animated comic book and not go the cartoon road.

Hurm.
 
This damn thing is sold out everywhere still. Can't believe the amount of back-orders in my local book shops for Watchmen.

Gonna go soon to see if they have Absolute Watchmen, I doubt it though. How many versions have been released anyways?
 
kozmo7 said:
This damn thing is sold out everywhere still. Can't believe the amount of back-orders in my local book shops for Watchmen.

Gonna go soon to see if they have Absolute Watchmen, I doubt it though. How many versions have been released anyways?
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I love my copy. Love it.

Prime crotch said:
Is this real?

http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/wtchmn.txt

An unproduced script of Watchmen from 1989.
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The end to that is a work of art. Hahahahahahaha.
 
ezekial45 said:
Is it worth buying the Absolute Edition if you already have the original version of the graphic novel?
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Correct me if I am wrong but I think that all the Absolute Edition is, is bigger full color pages and a Hardcover. Not sure if they re-did the art for it or not.
 
kozmo7 said:
Correct me if I am wrong but I think that all the Absolute Edition is, is bigger full color pages and a Hardcover. Not sure if they re-did the art for it or not.
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There is supplemental material at the end too.
 
ezekial45 said:
Is it worth buying the Absolute Edition if you already have the original version of the graphic novel?
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It's the definitive edition for sure. Recolored faithfully and beautifully, nicely oversized, bonus material, quality printing, hardcover. I'm not sure why they opted for matte paper in this case instead of glossy, but apparently it wasn't a decision motivated by cheapness so I won't moan about it too much.
 
Alright, I am sold. Plan to plop the 60-80 bucks on the Absolute Edition.. now I just need to track one down. It's so weird how it took a trailer 20 or so odd years later to get me to read this thing. :lol
 
I got my Absolute Watchmen from here last year (when it was, as now, hard as hell to find anywhere):

http://www.atomiccomicsstore.com/244868.html

Looks like they still have 'em in stock, at $75. Mine arrived new and undamaged (as opposed to my Absolute Sandman from amazon that has a dented slipcase...).


The damn things are completing on ebay right now for ~$170, so yeah.
 
Wait, no, after clicking they change their minds ;b out of stock. Oh well, tried to be of help at least!
 
EviLore said:
I got my Absolute Watchmen from here last year (when it was, as now, hard as hell to find anywhere):

http://www.atomiccomicsstore.com/244868.html

Looks like they still have 'em in stock, at $75. Mine arrived new and undamaged (as opposed to my Absolute Sandman from amazon that has a dented slipcase...).


The damn things are completing on ebay right now for ~$170, so yeah.
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I didn't realise they were so rare. My uncle leant me the paperback when I was in my mid teens, then about 18 months ago I decided it was time I read it again and picked up the Absolute edition without any issues whatsoever.
 
Reissue of Absolute comes out next week.

Sad story: My original Graphitti Designs hardcover, bought on release in 1987, was destroyed in a flood years ago...along with the hardcovers of Arkham Asylum (1st printing) and the 'Complete' (at that time) Frank Miller Batman.

The new regular sized hardcover of Watchmen will also feature the (superior) redone coloring. I'm figuring the new paperback will as well.
 
I'm so happy I got my version of the trade years ago, while it still had a virgin cover. Doesn't have that "one of Time Magazines top 100 novels!" line, and it doesn't have the inevitable "Now a major motion picture!" line. I'm actually going to buy a second copy to lend out to people so they can read it before they see the movie, because I don't want them screwing up my quote-free version. :D

I still regret not picking up V for Vendetta before the movie came out. It's practically impossible to get a copy these days without the movie mention on the cover.
 
ezekial45 said:
Is it worth buying the Absolute Edition if you already have the original version of the graphic novel?
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I can't think of any comic book worth coughing up $200 for, when there are perfectly good "normal" versions in circulation.
 
The Lamonster said:
Sure about that?

Link?
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Hm. Westfield Comics did have it listed as 8/13, and now they have it listed as 11/12. It must have been a mistake.

I think I'm going to ebay my first printing. I should have done that with the Bone: One Volume Edition.
 
border said:
I can't think of any comic book worth coughing up $200 for, when there are perfectly good "normal" versions in circulation.
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The Absolute edition should cost around 75$, the higher priced ones are probably sold during that period where they stopped printing them.
 
I ordered my copy of the Absolute edition from a UK online comics & stuff store for 34 pounds (~ 68$). Unfortunately for international orders - I'm from Europe, just not from the UK - they only tell you the delivery cost after shipping the damn thing. I can only hope it will be less than what they were asking in Italy. The translated hardcover edition is like 54$ there, which is nice, but they wanted an extra 60$ for postal costs only. Yikes!

Just how heavy is this book? :)
 
Prime crotch said:
The Absolute edition should cost around 75$, the higher priced ones are probably sold during that period where they stopped printing them.
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eBay Buy-It-Now prices are $200+ and no bids are under $100...it's $200 on Amazon as well.

Paying such a premium is ridiculous to start with, but even moreso considering that they probably will do reprints sometime between now and the film's release.
 
Mr. Sam said:
Time for Disaster Movie parody speculation.

Dr. Manhattan on a tanning bed, anyone?
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...Oh God. You just reminded me of the chance of those bastards making fun of the Watchmen trailer.
 
Jenga said:
...Oh God. You just reminded me of the chance of those bastards making fun of the Watchmen trailer.
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It's highly likely. Comedian not able to light a cigar maybe? Rorschah getting hit by a moose/Juno?
 
Rorschach falls in a bathroom, gets poo on his face.

Manhattan is a Blue Man reject (Tobias style).

Ignorant "Nite Owl is the same as Batman" jokes.

Bubastis gets a hairball.

Ozymandias' dish cable goes out due to blizzard.

Kovacks drops the soap.

The Bernies tongue kiss.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
I mean they didn't list Alan Moore as writer in the opening credits.
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That's ALAN MOORE'S call. He doesn't want his name attached with any sort of adaption. He's very weird like that.

Most creators look forward to the day when their works can be presented to a much larger audience, not him though. He's like a spoiled kid that refuses to share his toys.
 
Outcast2004 said:
That's ALAN MOORE'S call. He doesn't want his name attached with any sort of adaption. He's very weird like that.

Most creators look forward to the day when their works can be presented to a much larger audience, not him though. He's like a spoiled kid that refuses to share his toys.
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Ah! Moore's far from a spoiled brat, the man has been cheated at every instance when he tried to cooperate with the Hollywood bizz, no wonder now he has no desire to do so.
 
Outcast2004 said:
That's ALAN MOORE'S call. He doesn't want his name attached with any sort of adaption. He's very weird like that.

Most creators look forward to the day when their works can be presented to a much larger audience, not him though. He's like a spoiled kid that refuses to share his toys.
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:lol :lol
Thats not it at all. He believes that Hollywood studies do a crappy job of adapting his works to the big screen. He claimed the film version of V For Vendetta missed the point entirely.
 
ezekial45 said:
:lol :lol
Thats not it at all. He believes that Hollywood studies do a crappy job of adapting his works to the big screen. He claimed the film version of V For Vendetta missed the point entirely.
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And what was the point?
 
Mr. Snrub said:
And what was the point?
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I don't know, I haven't read the graphic novel. I was just paraphrasing from an interview he did awhile back.

EDIT:
http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/

Alan Moore said:
I've read the screenplay, so I know exactly what they're doing with it, and I'm not going to be going to see it. When I wrote "V," politics were taking a serious turn for the worse over here. We'd had [Conservative Party Prime Minister] Margaret Thatcher in for two or three years, we'd had anti-Thatcher riots, we'd got the National Front and the right wing making serious advances. "V for Vendetta" was specifically about things like fascism and anarchy.

Those words, "fascism" and "anarchy," occur nowhere in the film. It's been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country. In my original story there had been a limited nuclear war, which had isolated Britain, caused a lot of chaos and a collapse of government, and a fascist totalitarian dictatorship had sprung up. Now, in the film, you've got a sinister group of right-wing figures — not fascists, but you know that they're bad guys — and what they have done is manufactured a bio-terror weapon in secret, so that they can fake a massive terrorist incident to get everybody on their side, so that they can pursue their right-wing agenda. It's a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what "V for Vendetta" was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about [England].
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ezekial45 said:
:lol :lol
Thats not it at all. He believes that Hollywood studies do a crappy job of adapting his works to the big screen. He claimed the film version of V For Vendetta missed the point entirely.
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I still say he's a snob about Watchmen. He didn't even read the Watchmen script. And if he did, I'm sure he would realize Snyder is not going to be missing the point.
 
The Lamonster said:
I still say he's a snob about Watchmen. He didn't even read the Watchmen script. And if he did, I'm sure he would realize Snyder is not going to be missing the point.
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He was impressed David Hayter's script:

Alan Moore said:
"David Hayter's screenplay was as close as I could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen. That said, I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way."
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But then again, i'm not sure if he saw the revised script thats being used now.
 
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