Elmofongo: No joke when I was reading the comic, I actually thought the world was going to end in WW3 nuclear exchange, I am the athmosphere and the characters really made me thought the world ending to the point that I thought it was gonna happen in the end and I have a different ending in my head.
Also I like to ask, the Pirate comic within the story, how does it connect to the main plot, I try to piece it, but I never can.
And finally I like to ask what you thought what was the moral of the whole Watchmen Graphic Novel, everyone says its basically the deconstruction of the whole Superhero genre and mythos, but it seems more than that.
I've tried replying twice over the last couple of days and it wouldn't take my post... I'm going to sum up what I said, because I don't feel like retyping it all a third time:
1. Reading Wacthmen, even 20 times later, the feeling of doom is so strong despite knowing the ending, I STILL feel like the world is going to end towards the last couple of issues.
2. It was deconstruction, sure. It showed that even superheroes are still people. The characters are secretly gay, sexually repressed, forced into being a super hero by their mother, a disappointment to their father (Dreirburg), lonely, screwed up from childhood and their cases (Rorschach), sadists... Putting on a costumer doesn't make you instantly pure and noble, nor does it make you so. I guess it was about tearing down the perfect image of a superhero.
3. The book, to me, was about the realities sometimes mean superheroes beating up people with their fists doesn't solve anything. The answer was a superhero turning into a supervillian, essentially., tackling the big problem (essentially war/politics) instead of the smaller ones (street crime). To me, the book was also about lonliness. Every character, Manhatten, Night Owl, Rorschach, both Silk Spectres, even Ozymandias, were all lonely in their lives, sometimes by choice, sometimes not.
