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[GHERU]

I liked the V For Vendetta GN more then the Watchmen GN. I also enjoyed Batman Year One GN more then Watchmen too.

For me, Watchmen felt being forced on me by the shops and other fans going on and on and on about it. It's good, maybe even great but honestly... not the greatest.

My choice for greatest GN is Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu: A Child's Dream.

I think I lucked out in that I read Watchmen before I ever joined the online comic book community. My comic book guy recommended it and that was that. I didn't have any hype to color my expectations.

[Cat-Scratch]

My favorite GN of all time would be the Complete Maus.

Watchmen is by far and away the best superhero story of all time.

You mean you think it is.

[Cat-Scratch]

I think I lucked out in that I read Watchmen before I ever joined the online comic book community. My comic book guy recommended it and that was that. I didn't have any hype to color my expectations.

For me, it was as it was coming out. I ended up borrowing it from a friend as a monthly.

At the time, it was an easy to see thing for folks to go crazy over. There were not that many minis or real graphic novels at the time and the concept was just really getting going. Prior stuff like Chamelot 3000 just didn't have the same thing. Also, the only other ones really about in 86 was either Miller's Batman YO or Dark Knight. The only other thing was Byrne's Man Of Steel.

Back then, the LCSes were just like the online forums on new comic day(s) and Saturdays. Folks just spoke out with opinions when anyone was around. It's why I hate Marvel Zombies too... they never shut up... but back then, I could punch them.

[BlueStreak]

Twigglet's right.

All of the great literary classics don't have sequels. The Three Musketeers, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Wizard of Oz are all examples of this. I'm glad that the publishers never sunk so low as to try to exploit these books for additional titles.

Furthermore, just think of how tarnished books such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, Robinson Crusoe or The Aeneid would be had someone besides the author ever wrote a sequel to them. They'd probably be ruined forever.

[Jubilee]

Twigglet's right.

All of the great literary classics don't have sequels. The Three Musketeers, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Wizard of Oz are all examples of this. I'm glad that the publishers never sunk so low as to try to exploit these books for additional titles.

Furthermore, just think of how tarnished books such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, Robinson Crusoe or The Aeneid would be had someone besides the author ever wrote a sequel to them. They'd probably be ruined forever.

You're talking different fields completely. Watchmen is the one comic we can all say is technically amazing. A story which is known as better than anything else.

Look at Star Wars, Dark Knight Returns, The Phoenix Saga and Indiana Jones as franchises which have lost a lot of luster after their original stories were tampered with.

This was a book which purposely didn't set up for a sequel or prequel. All the prequel stuff is already there in the preview. This is a literacy travesty, and we're all accepting of it because a company wants to make money.

BTW - Hamlet and Pride and Prejudices sequels? You're reaching.

[Cat-Scratch]

Twigglet's right.

All of the great literary classics don't have sequels. The Three Musketeers, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Wizard of Oz are all examples of this. I'm glad that the publishers never sunk so low as to try to exploit these books for additional titles.

Furthermore, just think of how tarnished books such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, Robinson Crusoe or The Aeneid would be had someone besides the author ever wrote a sequel to them. They'd probably be ruined forever.

Hamlet is a book?

[GHERU]

Twigglet's right.

All of the great literary classics don't have sequels. The Three Musketeers, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Wizard of Oz are all examples of this. I'm glad that the publishers never sunk so low as to try to exploit these books for additional titles.

Furthermore, just think of how tarnished books such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, Robinson Crusoe or The Aeneid would be had someone besides the author ever wrote a sequel to them. They'd probably be ruined forever.

[Cat-Scratch]

And Twigg fell for it.

[GHERU]

Hamlet 2 > Hamlet

[Cat-Scratch]

Hamlet 2 > Hamlet

"Hamlet 2 - To Be or Not To Be... HARDER!!!!"

"Ophelia's back and now... she's a bitch."

[Herald]

"Hamlet 2 - To Be or Not To Be... HARDER!!!!"

"Ophelia's back and now... she's a bitch."

"Hamlet 2 - The ORIGINAL Emo Kid is BACK!! And he's only BEGUN to hem and haw!!"

[Cat-Scratch]

"Hamlet 2 - The ORIGINAL Emo Kid is BACK!! And he's only BEGUN to hem and haw!!"

"Hamlet 2 - That Dane Bastard"

"Hamlet 2 - Zombies Attack!"

[Stephen Day]

[GHERU]

Stephen knows whats up

[BlueStreak]

BTW - Hamlet and Pride and Prejudices sequels? You're reaching.

Both Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice have spawn multiple sequels. Hell, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead is actually pretty good.