Watchmen Costumes

All of them revealed here. I say they look fantastic. I just hope the movie is decent.

These are probably movie poster images. Pictured above is Rorschach, the crazy vigilante character. 

Loved the graphic novel, but what’s your opinion on the Watchmen story?

Posted by  on  03/06  at  12:47 PM

Well, the ending was lame after all that build up. I liked 80% of it, but I disagree with Moore’s view of Superheroes in that book.

When Watchman came out I was a huge fan, but Moore has a problem of paying off his stories at the end. He’s great at the build up, but the pay offs are usually anti-climactic. Which is a shame. It is a great comic, however. Just not as great as it should have been.

He since tried to “make up” for the negativity of Watchmen with his ABC books, but they were kind of corny swipes of old ideas.

I notice they dropped Dr Manhattan off the list of costumes. Probably because naked isn’t a costume.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  01:16 PM

But you don’t have a problem with the whole ‘superheroes in the real world’ idea do you?  Just Moore’s take on the idea?  What exactly is wrong with his idea of superheroes and how should superheroes in the real world be handled?

I noticed you kinda went into the gritty superhero route with Strikeforce Morituri and the mini-series that followed it.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  01:32 PM

The problem I have with Moore’s Watchmen argument is that the only thing Superheroes would do is beat up pushers and prostitutes. But then he alludes to larger stories in the past the characters were involved in that never get much discussion.

The Psycho is my response to Watchmen (which has been ripped off by things like The Boys and
that Marvel Civil War crossover), is that in the real world Superheros would have to be involved in things like covert ops and political stuff which would make them a form of WMD, and therefore, targets for the other side, and watched byour government.

In my story each side had their own cadre of “FCOs” (Freelanced Costumed Operatives) which would replace nuclear weapons as a deterrent.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  01:45 PM

Yeah, that does indeed sound similar to The Boys and the whole superhero registration in Civil War.  I think J. Micheal Straczynski did something similar with SUPREME POWER/SQUADRON SUPREME.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  03:04 PM

Now this - http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/02/22/war-heroes/

looks interesting as well.  Superheroes as soldiers from the looks of it.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  03:06 PM

Great, another leftist screed from Millar.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  05:16 PM

I thought you had Millar all wrong (you’d mentioned him before) from my reading of The Ultimates, till I got to his final volume. I don’t really know him beyond that series.

Posted by Edshugeo The GodMoor  on  03/06  at  07:48 PM

He’s just got a really biased view of things that’s borders on the cartoony. Let me put it this way, I know left wing comics writers who think his stuff is too biased.

I think he’s a decent writer. I just wish some of these writers today wouldn’t be so partisan. Comics were a lot more fun when they weren’t rubbing your face in the writer’s politics.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  08:08 PM

Not really sure if it’s going to be leftist.  As long as he portrays the soldiers with respect and not have some evil secret U.S. government conspiracy involved.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  08:11 PM

If he did it would be the first time in his career. Not holding my breath.

Posted by  on  03/06  at  09:29 PM

So question is, can a superhero comic set in the real world(with real world events taking place) be written without any political bias?
If so, how?

Posted by  on  03/06  at  10:53 PM

Well, every writer has a bias. We’re talking about degrees.

Superheroes in the real world...it doesn’t matter if the character is a superpowered or not. The same rules of fiction apply. If you want the character to be believable, they have to be motivated by realistic things. Political zealots are a minority of people. Most people are somewhere in the middle. If the story is to be believed, the characters would have to have reasons for their beliefs that are sound for them.

The problem with Millar and some of the other Brit writers, is they make everyone extreme cartoons and they tak extreme actions which are absurd. Extreme actions have extreme consequences. You can’t go around mass murdering people you don’t agree with, as so many characters do in comics today.

Posted by  on  03/07  at  07:49 AM

One Brit created character who does take extreme actions and has experienced extreme consequences is Judge Dredd IMO.  Also, I think Warren Ellis tries to explore ‘extreme consequences’ of an extreme act of a superhero in BLACK SUMMER.

Posted by  on  03/07  at  11:18 AM

Well, Judge Dredd wasn’t that political. It was sort of a parody of Dirty Harry in the future.

Posted by  on  03/07  at  01:01 PM
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