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fandomsecrets2009-03-01 04:31 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2009-03-01 04:31 pm
[ SECRET POST #786 ]
⌈ Secret Post #786 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 15 pages, 352 secrets from Secret Submission Post #113.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ], [ 1 - empty comment ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Watchmen was a revolution for its time. Just as The Dark Knight Returns was (also in 1986) when it came it. It took a genre that was built for a certain demographic, generally kids, and completely flipped it upside down. It invoked a new light and provoked thoughts on the genre of superhero comics.
Superhero comics... Marvel, DC, Wildstorm, even the stuff on smaller press labels like Image, Dynamite and IDW all take cues from these books. The wouldn't be what they are without it.
There are plenty of people who never heard of it before the movie - hell, I run a comic shop, and one of my regulars came in asking about it. He's been shopping with us for years and never heard much of Watchmen before the hype. But it's not because it's boring, or because it's 12 issues (a good chunk of the most influential stories in comics were mini-series. the Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke are two notable ones) - it's because it's not completely mainstream. It's a self-contained story. You never see the Watchmen anywhere else in comics prior or after this story. But it's always been there. It's not on Time's 100 Greatest Novels list for nothing!
Bonus! The second episode of Tiny Toons Adventures has a Watchmen reference in it - so just because you never heard of it, OP, doesn't mean the influences haven't invaded other aspects of fandoms you may be in. Books you've read and shows you've watched... a lot of them have reference to it.
/tl;dr
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Ooo, what was it?
no subject
I actually just discovered this last week when I picked up the DVD boxset. My co-worker and I were completely floored that something we watched as kids had something we both grew up to love so much referenced in it!
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