(PROGRAMME thousand words. 19 NOVEMBER 2009)
often we will meet with works of an artistic genre twilight depleted that are designed to close that chapter and, unwittingly, become the work reference. It is possible that in the work are all topics for which distinguishes that particular genre, but a work is exceptional. What are otherwise "Pale Rider", "Spartacus" and "Ran"? With Watchmen happens. Suddenly, a work published in a period of stagnation of superheroes get alter the fundamentals of the genre, fusing all the topics and become a work and not exceptional, but a teacher. Among the key works of the ninth art, among the top ten, without clarifying the position because a lot depends on personal taste.
Why do I say this? It is, of course, a bold assertion. Take into account that he says can not establish the comic nothing more than a great love and he knows what he's talking or does so empirically derived knowledge base read as possible. No formal training in this regard. But I know that no wrong, because each new reading of Watchmen provides greater depth to the work and because it is necessary to provide this book, returning it to us, let us know if he claims to have read, it has, and if he did, if you read that right, and if you understand.
should read Watchmen. I know many readers say they prefer the European comic strip, closer and more humanized, and that, therefore, should be superheroes for children. They are wrong because this story is not Marvel or DC comic books to use. This is something else.
In Spain, now reissued as a book, and has the appearance of a graphic novel, plus the first releases of Watchmen are a limited series of 12 episodes. So this work is considered one of the crowning works of the comic book and graphic novel can not be considered a work conceived only as a novel but as a series, but also as a current series, but a closed set, cyclical, recurring and certain one-way from the very moment of conception. Something like what happened with the first LP's conceptual Sargeant's Pepper of Beatles and Pet Sounds of The Beach Boys.
But it is this that makes Watchmen a reference. Imagine all the families of potential superheroes, their coalitions, their appearances in other series, their enemies, the evolution of his personality, imagine addition, a human depth behind each of these characters, and, last but not least, imagine that this climate of permanent crisis, nuclear fear, fear of war, would have existed without the Watergate and Richard Nixon was U.S. president The truth is that this cocktail in my hand may not lead to anything, but between Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons completed this masterpiece.
speak of the various species of superheroes, because from the 30 to 80, appeared superheroes who were masked men, others who had superpowers to suffer mutations, others who had some power mythical or mythological others were simple soldiers, ... All the families are here and their union does not squeak.
Depression, the crisis of identity of the characters, the sense of failure, internal issues of each of the superheroes, who had been outlined in other series. Characters like X-Men, Spiderman, Batman, had some internal struggle, not without a dose of "pop psychology." This inner dialogue is more profound, there are characters who feel they have failed in their post-life superhero, who lead a more nondescript deprives them a sense of their lives, others lowing to be superior to a destination or must preserve the values \u200b\u200bof a society that has disappeared, and others, from its status as superheroes, looking at other humans as mere spectators.
The struggle between good and evil, as Manichaean in American comics, so focused on the balance between superhero and supervillain, finally, after all, so childish, no longer is. The inner struggle of the characters are joined lust, sex, money, madness, passion for doing wrong ... The superheroes are adults.
was recently made into a movie, Alan Moore, without even seeing it, reneging on the tape. Why? Watchmen was conceived as a choral work, in terms of characters and in terms of technique. Are planned vignettes, dialogues, text inserts, works displayed (comic within the comic), symmetry, self-reference, .... The author understands that this is not possible to translate it into a movie. All special effects were worth the world to please the artist Dave Gibbons, but nothing else. Perhaps Pixar with The Incredibles, would capture a little more sense of human life superheroes, albeit in a watered down version and very slightly basad the idea of \u200b\u200bloss of identity of a superhero.
To finish, a council must read Watchmen, several times. Each time you read, you discover new things, both in drawing and in history. It's like any essential masterpiece. Like any work of art, expendable. Because our survival depends not read it or not, but it will bring to life a time of enjoyment or frustration, and perhaps a new nuance to live it.
Watchmen: quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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